Hi Maxime,

El 03/08/14 a las 09:42, Maxime Ripard escibi?:

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:28:05PM -0300, Emilio L?pez wrote:

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Currently, some hardware revisions of sunxi SoCs need special care on
some blocks because of hardware differences and/or bugs. Unfortunately,
it is unfeasible to account for these issues directly when writing the
device tree, as SoC revision can vary between different units of the
same device. This commit introduces a place to adjust DT compatibles
as needed to work around said issues before devices are probed. To
demonstrate usage, two quirks are added for the PLL2 and audio codec
on sun4i.

Signed-off-by: Emilio L?pez <emilio@elopez.com.ar>
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+static int __init sunxi_apply_quirks(void)
+{
+	if (of_machine_is_compatible("allwinner,sun4i-a10")) {
+		sun4i_pll2_quirk();
+		sun4i_codec_quirk();
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+postcore_initcall(sunxi_apply_quirks)

Have you tested it? My guess is that it wolud have to run *much*
sooner, before of_platform_populate to be effective.

I have, I was able to break my UART with it :)

of_platform_populate() is called from arch/arm/kernel/setup.c on 
arch_initcall. From include/linux/init.h

...
#define postcore_initcall(fn)           __define_initcall(fn, 2)
#define postcore_initcall_sync(fn)      __define_initcall(fn, 2s)
#define arch_initcall(fn)               __define_initcall(fn, 3)
...

So it should be fine.

Cheers,

Emilio