Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Daniel Palmer
Hi Andreas, On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 23:27, Andreas Färber wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > Am 11.06.20 um 15:01 schrieb Daniel Palmer: > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 21:49, Andreas Färber wrote: > >>> peripherals and system memory in a single tiny QFN package that > >>> can be hand soldered allowing almost

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi Daniel, Am 11.06.20 um 15:01 schrieb Daniel Palmer: On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 21:49, Andreas Färber wrote: peripherals and system memory in a single tiny QFN package that can be hand soldered allowing almost anyone to embed Linux "soldered, allowing"? The original reads ok to me. Maybe I

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Daniel Palmer
Hi Andreas, On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 21:58, Andreas Färber wrote: > You call the dir mach-mstar, but name the Kconfig ARCH_MSTARV7. I had > previously been asked to just use the vendor name, so this should > probably be just ARCH_MSTAR. Outside arch/arm/ you can then use ARM && > ARCH_MSTAR

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Daniel Palmer
Hi Andreas, On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 21:49, Andreas Färber wrote: > > peripherals and system memory in a single tiny QFN package that > > can be hand soldered allowing almost anyone to embed Linux > > "soldered, allowing"? The original reads ok to me. Maybe I can just split that into two

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 10.06.20 um 11:04 schrieb Daniel Palmer: diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile index 59fde2d598d8..e7f4ca060c0f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile @@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ machine-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MXC) += imx machine-$(CONFIG_ARCH_MEDIATEK) +=

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 10.06.20 um 11:04 schrieb Daniel Palmer: Initial support for the MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury series of ARMv7 based IP camera and dashcam SoCs. These chips are interesting in that they contain a Cortex A7, "Cortex-A7" peripherals and system memory in a single tiny QFN package that

Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:08 AM Daniel Palmer wrote: > +/* > + * This may need locking to deal with situations where an interrupt > + * happens while we are in here and mb() gets called by the interrupt > handler. > + */ I would suspect that you don't need locking here, and locking would

[PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: mstar: Add machine for MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury family ARMv7 SoCs

2020-06-10 Thread Daniel Palmer
Initial support for the MStar/Sigmastar infinity/mercury series of ARMv7 based IP camera and dashcam SoCs. These chips are interesting in that they contain a Cortex A7, peripherals and system memory in a single tiny QFN package that can be hand soldered allowing almost anyone to embed Linux in