Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 3 authors, 2015-03-04

Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] arm64: dts: exynos: Add dts files for 64-bit Exynos5433 SoC

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2015-02-24 09:51:53
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On Tuesday 24 February 2015 18:01:27 Chanwoo Choi wrote:
On 02/24/2015 05:33 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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On Tuesday 24 February 2015 14:16:45 Chanwoo Choi wrote:
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This patch adds new Exynos5433 dtsi to support 64-bit Exynos5433 SoC based on
Octal core CPUs (quad Cortex-A57 and quad Cortex-A53). And Exynos5433 supports
PSCI (Power State Coordination Interface) v0.1.

This patch includes following dt node to support Exynos5433 SoC:
1. Octa core for big.LITTLE architecture
- Cortex-A53 LITTLE Quad-core
- Cortex-A57 big Quad-core
- Support PSCI v0.1
Should we try to come up with a way to better share parts of this with the
exynos5 dtsi files you already have in arm32? I suspect that there is a
significant overlap.
Currently, 32-bit Exynos5 SoC (which is included in arch/arm/boot/dts)
didn't support the Cortex-A53/A57 and PSCI.

The 32-bit Exynos5 SoC support the Coretex-A7 or A15 and big.LITTLE Exynos5 SoC
use the MCPM (Multi-Cluster PM) driver for secondary cpu on/off instead of PSCI.
Yes, I understand that. What I meant is sharing the nodes that are identical
between e.g. all exynos54xx by using a common .dtsi file that can be included
by 5420, 5433 and 5440.

	Arnd
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