On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Segher Boessenkool
seg...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
You need to be a bit more careful tho. You must not allow RAM managed by
the kernel to be mapped non-cachable.
Even if the user explicitly sets the O_SYNC flag? IMHO, it's a bug of
the application if it
Hello All,
I'm unable to compile my custom kernel version 2.6.22.5 after applying real
time patch 2.6.22.1-rt9. I get following compilation errors:
In file included from arch/ppc/include/asm/hw_irq.h:121,
from include/asm/system.h:9,
from
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:07:46PM +0800, Li Yang wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Segher Boessenkool
seg...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
You need to be a bit more careful tho. You must not allow RAM managed by
the kernel to be mapped non-cachable.
Even if the user explicitly sets
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:12:21AM -0600, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu
Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region
When the kernel size exceeds 32MB(observed with some distros), memory
for kdump kernel can not be reserved as kdump kernel base is assumed to
be 32MB always. When the kernel has CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option enabled,
provide the feature to reserve the
The tb_total and purr_total values reported via the hcall_stats code
should be cumulative, rather than being replaced by the latest delta tb
or purr value.
Tested-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
---
[ This is a touch-up to the
Hi Stefano,
Stefano Babic wrote:
Peter Tyser ptyser wrote:
+# Create a default, fully populated DTS file
+DATA=/ {
+ description = \Linux kernel ${VERSION}\;
+ #address-cells = 1;
+
+ images {
+ kernel at 1 {
Is the at probably generated by your anti-spam
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
If GAMECUBE_COMMON is unacceptable, maybe GAMECUBE_LEGACY or
GAMECUBE_COMPAT?
Maybe it's best to write GAMECUBE || WII in the places that use it, then?
That gets messy in conditionals, like for example:
config PCI
bool PCI support if PPC_PCI_CHOICE
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Surely there is something called something like of_node_is_compatible()
you can use here? You already have the node pointer, there is no need
to look at all other nodes.
I see the point.
I didn't find of_node_is_compatible() but I'll look what's available
here.
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
config GAMECUBE_COMMON
bool
select NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
+select FLIPPER_PIC
Maybe using FLIPPER (or GAMECUBE_FLIPPER) instead of GAMECUBE_COMMON
is a good name?
I'd prefer to not use a name that implies a specific hardware to describe two
(mostly)
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+static struct of_device_id gamecube_of_bus[] = {
+{ .compatible = nintendo,flipper, },
+{ },
+};
+
+static int __init gamecube_device_probe(void)
+{
+if (!machine_is(gamecube))
+return 0;
+
+of_platform_bus_probe(NULL, gamecube_of_bus,
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+config HLWD_PIC
Are vowels too expensive? :-)
Heh, you work/worked for IBM. Look at what they did with the CLI in the
AS/400...
I thought here that hollywood is a rather large prefix and there is also a
board called holly. So I came up with hlwd :)
+static
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Add support for the BootMii 'mini' firmware replacement for the
Starlet processor.
'mini' is an open source IOS replacement written from scratch by
Team Twiizers.
It's not a replacement, it doesn't have any of the same functionality.
I didn't know 'replacement'
+/memreserve/ 0x0180 0xe80; /* memory hole (includes I/O area) */
Like others have said already, don't do this. If you need
a workaround, put it in the platform code.
+/memreserve/ 0x1000 0x0004000; /* DSP RAM */
This address is fixed in the DSP hardware, right? If not,
you
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/wii.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/wii.c
+#define DRV_MODULE_NAME rvl
Should this be wii?
Ok. I'm fine with both.
+static enum starlet_ipc_flavour starlet_ipc_flavour;
+
+enum starlet_ipc_flavour
+ memory {
+ device_type = memory;
+ /* 24M minus framebuffer memory area (640*576*2*2) */
+ reg = 0x 0x01698000;
Put the whole 24MB here, probe the framebuffer address and size
in the platform code?
+ soc {
+ #address-cells =
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+ i2c-video {
+ #address-cells = 1;
+ #size-cells = 0;
+ compatible = virtual,i2c-gpio;
There isn't a documented binding for this. Is there a driver for it?
I have a driver for it. But
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+/memreserve/ 0x0180 0xe80; /* memory hole (includes I/O area) */
Like others have said already, don't do this. If you need
a workaround, put it in the platform code.
I'll do. Thanks.
+/memreserve/ 0x1000 0x0004000; /* DSP RAM */
This address
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+memory {
+device_type = memory;
+/* 24M minus framebuffer memory area (640*576*2*2) */
+reg = 0x 0x01698000;
Put the whole 24MB here, probe the framebuffer address and size
in the platform code?
Yes, I'll do
M. Mohan Kumar schrieb:
Reserve memory for kdump kernel within RMO region
When the kernel size exceeds 32MB(observed with some distros), memory
for kdump kernel can not be reserved as kdump kernel base is assumed to
be 32MB always. When the kernel has CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option enabled,
On Wen, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:33:57 Grant Likely wrote:
Thanks. However, there needs to be a proper description of what this
patch does to go in the commit header. Can you please write one?
Thanks,
g.
[...]
The initialization of the chip selects is removed from the probe() function of
the
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 10:12 -0600, Will Schmidt wrote:
Tested-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
Isn't it assumed that the one that made the patch also tested it? Well I
would hope that is the norm.
-- Steve
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Torsten Fleischer
to-fleisc...@t-online.de wrote:
On Wen, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:33:57 Grant Likely wrote:
Thanks. However, there needs to be a proper description of what this
patch does to go in the commit header. Can you please write one?
Thanks,
g.
[...]
Remove the CPU from the online map to prevent smp_call_function
from sending messages to a stopped CPU.
Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak vbars...@ru.mvista.com
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c |3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -pruN linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:56:02AM +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:
[PATCH] Write to HVC terminal from purgatory code
Current x86/x86-64 kexec-tools print the message I'm in purgatory to serial
console/VGA while executing the purgatory code. Implement this feature for
POWERPC pseries platform
Nathan Fontenot writes:
This patch adds the specific routines to probe and release (add and remove)
cpu resource for the powerpc pseries platform and registers these handlers
with the ppc_md callout structure.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot nf...@austin.ibm.com
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
Nathan Fontenot writes:
In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release. The probe/release
Nathan Fontenot writes:
The Dynamic Logical Partitioning capabilities of the powerpc pseries platform
allows for the addition and removal of resources (i.e. CPU's, memory, and PCI
devices) from a partition. The removal of a resource involves
removing the resource's node from the device tree
Hi Will,
The tb_total and purr_total values reported via the hcall_stats code
should be cumulative, rather than being replaced by the latest delta tb
or purr value.
Tested-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt will_schm...@vnet.ibm.com
Ouch! Nice catch.
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:17 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang w.s...@pengutronix.de
Tested-by: Michal Simek mon...@monstr.eu
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:18 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca
---
Ok with that, like the precendent, however you are making global some
symbols that were previously static which sucks a bit... But
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:18 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca
---
arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c |8
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c|8
drivers/of/fdt.c |
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:18 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
A cell is firmly established as a u32. No need to do an ugly typedef
to redefine it to cell_t. Eliminate the unnecessary typedef so that
it doesn't have to be added to the of_fdt header file
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:17 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang w.s...@pengutronix.de
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:18 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca
---
Ok with that, like the precendent,
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:19 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
-static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
- const char *uname, int depth,
- void *data)
+int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:19 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
I don't like moving this one to common code without the of_ prefix. I
think you should move it with the of_ prefix, and then add a alias in
powerpc and microblaze without of_ in a header until
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:18 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
A cell is firmly established as a u32. No need to do an ugly typedef
to redefine it to cell_t. Eliminate the unnecessary typedef so that
it doesn't
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:19 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+#if !defined(CONFIG_SPARC) /* SPARC doesn't do ref counting (yet) */
+/**
Make this a Kconfig symbol, something like CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC. You need
refcounting when you can add/remove nodes dynamically. Some embedded
archs might want
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 01:19 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze
Some of those guys might wnat to be in of_dynamic (see previous email)
Remember: We want to keep the footprint low for embedded archs that
don't want to do dynamic stuff. Really low.
Cheers,
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter as a bootwrapper console on
the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides
a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:02 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+ /* devices contained int the flipper chipset */
+ soc {
It would be better to rename this as IMMR or the bus type. This node
doesn't actually describe the entire chip, but describes the internal
memory mapped
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:19 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
so the node really is
describing the internal bus, not the entire SoC. On some chips it is
documented as the internally memory mapped registers, or IMMR. So,
it is better to name this node in a way that reflects what it is (an
internal
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 23:36 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
If you have only one interrupt controller, like here, you don't
need to refer to it _at all_ :-)
I think Linux requires that you do though. It might be a mistake on our
part but heh ...
Cheers,
Ben.
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 19:00 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+ memory {
+ device_type = memory;
+ /* 24M minus framebuffer memory area (640*576*2*2) */
+ reg = 0x 0x01698000;
Put the whole 24MB here, probe the framebuffer address and size
in the
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 18:38 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Hi Albert,
+asm (\n\
A file scope asm?! Please don't.
So what's your proposal then? Placing it within a fake func?
Just do a .S file :-)
That asm snippet is the entry point. I took as an
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:00 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Sure, the memory controllers don't do coherency. I'm slightly worried
about two things:
1) Will the generic code use M=0 as well? Is it a problem if it
doesn't?
We can make it not do it.
2) Do lwarx. etc. work in M=0?
They
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:02 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+
+ vi...@0c002000 {
+ compatible = nintendo,flipper-video;
+ reg = 0x0c002000 0x100;
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
+/memreserve/ 0x0180 0xe80; /* memory hole (includes I/O area) */
+/memreserve/ 0x1000 0x0004000; /* DSP RAM */
Weird layout... nothing you can do about I suppose.
Out of curiosity, what is that DSP RAM ? Some actual DSP
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:49 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
+/memreserve/ 0x0180 0xe80; /* memory hole (includes I/O area) */
Like others have said already, don't do this. If you need
a workaround, put it in the platform code.
+/memreserve/ 0x1000 0x0004000; /* DSP RAM */
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 19:34 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
We need nobats (or a hack in the mmu_mapin_ram() code) because of the
discontiguous ram problem.
I would vote for a hack in mmu_mapin_ram() for now.
Cheers,
Ben.
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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 19:03 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Add a config option GAMECUBE_COMMON to be used as a dependency for all
options common to the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
Maybe something like GAMECUBE_OR_WII instead? COMMON is so
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
The processors bundled in the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles
require explicit cache handling when DMA engines are used.
That reminds me we really need to make that a runtime option some day...
Cheers,
Ben.
Signed-off-by:
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:21 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Albert Herranz albert_herr...@yahoo.es
wrote:
The Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles do not have PCI hardware.
Avoid wasting their scarce memory by not including PCI support into the
kernel.
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
Add support for using the USB Gecko adapter via the udbg facility on
the Nintendo GameCube and Wii video game consoles.
The USB Gecko is a 3rd party memory card interface adapter that provides
a EXI (External Interface) to USB serial
Hi Gautham,
+ call_status = rtas_call(rtas_token(ibm,get-system-parameter), 3, 1,
+ NULL,
+ CEDE_LATENCY_TOKEN,
+ __pa(cede_parameters),
+ CEDE_LATENCY_PARAM_MAX_LENGTH);
+
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:27 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
This will probably break other platforms if
CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_USBGECKO
is set. In general, we try hard to make it possible to build generic
kernels for multiple systems, so it would be better to also add a
runtime check here.
No
Grant, this is based on your test-devicetree branch, if it could be
merged via there would be great.
Currently when processing flattened device trees, the kernel expects
the phandle in a property called linux,phandle. The ePAPR spec -
not being Linux specific - instead requires phandles to be
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
+static void flipper_pic_mask_and_ack(unsigned int virq)
+{
+ int irq = virq_to_hw(virq);
+ void __iomem *io_base = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
+
+ clear_bit(irq, io_base + FLIPPER_IMR);
+ set_bit(irq, io_base +
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:28 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
+unsigned int flipper_pic_get_irq(void)
+{
+ void __iomem *io_base = flipper_irq_host-host_data;
+ int irq;
+ u32 irq_status;
+
+ irq_status = in_be32(io_base + FLIPPER_ICR)
+
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 18:09 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
I could use ppc_md.ioremap to duplicate ioremap except for the ioremap
ram check.
But calling the stock ioremap without modifying it is not possible
because it checks and bails out when ioremapping a region marked as
ram (even if it's
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 23:01 +0100, Albert Herranz wrote:
+static void hlwd_pic_mask_and_ack(unsigned int virq)
+{
+ int irq = virq_to_hw(virq);
+ void __iomem *io_base = get_irq_chip_data(virq);
+
+ clear_bit(irq, io_base + HW_BROADWAY_IMR);
+ set_bit(irq, io_base +
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 21:05 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
You're right, it's not, but makes merging less complex, and then I can
refactor properly.
Still, make them __be32 at least
Cheers,
Ben.
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On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 21:38 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
But this isn't real OF. Real OF can generate its own valid tree.
This is a flat tree, and it is valid according to all users of the
flat tree. Besides, the last time we talked about this, you told me
that moving it to the root was a
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:16 PM, David Gibson
da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au wrote:
Grant, this is based on your test-devicetree branch, if it could be
merged via there would be great.
Currently when processing flattened device trees, the kernel expects
the phandle in a property called
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 21:38 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
But this isn't real OF. Real OF can generate its own valid tree.
This is a flat tree, and it is valid according to all users of the
flat tree.
In message: fa686aa40911252005o2db85dfk3d9acc61c12ca...@mail.gmail.com
Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca writes:
: Word from Mitch is the device tree is network byte order. period.
OpenFirmware defines the order to be big endian always, even on little
endian processors.
Warner
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:28 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message:
fa686aa40911252005o2db85dfk3d9acc61c12ca...@mail.gmail.com
Grant Likely grant.lik...@secretlab.ca writes:
: Word from Mitch is the device tree is network byte order. period.
OpenFirmware defines the order to
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 00:06:13 Pravin Bathija wrote:
Description: Set PCI-E node inbound DMA ranges size to 4GB for correct
boot up of katmai. Including only changes for PCI-E DMA ranges as
suggested by Stefan.
Signed-off-by: Pravin Bathija pbath...@amcc.com
Acked-by: Feng Kan
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:07:46PM +0800, Li Yang wrote:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Segher Boessenkool
seg...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
You need to be a bit more careful tho. You must not allow RAM managed by
the
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