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MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to followon patches. Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map itself appropriately. Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg. differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of defconfig files. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-10-06 01:18:20 +08:00
if MIPS_GENERIC
config LEGACY_BOARDS
bool
help
Select this from your board if the board must use a legacy, non-UHI,
boot protocol. This will cause the kernel to scan through the list of
supported machines calling their detect functions in turn if the
kernel is booted without being provided with an FDT via the UHI
boot protocol.
MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported by generic kernels. Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and we don't want to force a switch to the UHI protocol, SEAD-3 is added as a legacy board which is detected by reading the REVISION register. This may technically not be a valid memory read & future work will include attempting to handle that gracefully. In practice since SEAD-3 is the only legacy board supported by the generic kernel so far the read will only happen on SEAD-3 boards, and even once Malta is converted the same REVISION register exists there too. Other boards such as Boston, Ci20 & Ci40 will use the UHI boot protocol & thus not run any of the legacy board detect functions. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14354/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-10-06 01:18:21 +08:00
config LEGACY_BOARD_SEAD3
bool "Support MIPS SEAD-3 boards"
select LEGACY_BOARDS
help
Enable this to include support for booting on MIPS SEAD-3 FPGA-based
development boards, which boot using a legacy boot protocol.
MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to followon patches. Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map itself appropriately. Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg. differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of defconfig files. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2016-10-06 01:18:20 +08:00
endif