BMIPS processor cores are used in 50+ different chipsets spread across
5+ product lines. In many cases the chipsets do not share the same
peripheral register layouts, the same register blocks, the same
interrupt controllers, the same memory maps, or much of anything else.
But, across radically different SoCs that share nothing more than the
same BMIPS CPU, a few things are still mostly constant:
SMP operations
Access to performance counters
DMA cache coherency quirks
Cache and memory bus configuration
So, it makes sense to treat each BMIPS processor type as a generic
"building block," rather than tying it to a specific SoC. This makes it
easier to support a large number of BMIPS-based chipsets without
unnecessary duplication of code, and provides the infrastructure needed
to support BMIPS-proprietary features.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: mbizon@freebox.fr
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1706/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org
Loongson 2F supports CPU clock scaling. When put it into wait mode by
setting the frequency as ZERO it will stay in this mode until an external
interrupt wakes the CPU again.
To enable clock scaling support, an external timer of a known stable rate
is required.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com,
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/660/
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/751/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Todo: Nothing ever detects CPU_BCM6338 but the code tests for it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch removes the various CPU_AU1??? model constants in favor of
a single CPU_ALCHEMY one.
All currently existing Alchemy models are identical in terms of cpu
core and cache size/organization. The parts of the mips kernel which
need to know the exact CPU revision extract it from the c0_prid register
already; and finally nothing else in-tree depends on those any more.
Should a new variant with slightly different "company options" and/or
"processor revision" bits in c0_prid appear, it will be supported
immediately (minus an exact model string in cpuinfo).
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Add OCTEON constants to asm/cpu.h and asm/module.h.
Add probe function for Cavium OCTEON CPUs and hook it up.
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Kevin Cernekee