Re: [PATCH v6 04/10] arm/tegra: prepare early init for multiple tegra variants

[Colin Cross]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Peter De Schrijver
<pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:29:43PM +0100, Colin Cross wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Peter De Schrijver wrote at Thursday, December 08, 2011 5:44 AM:
>> >> This patch splits the early init code in a common and a tegra20 specific part.
>> >> L2 cache initialization is generalized and discovers the cache associativity
>> >> at runtime. Also use arm_pm_restart instead of arm_arch_reset and reset the
>> >> the system using the PMC reset feature rather then the CAR system reset.
>> >
>> > This one really should be at least 3 separate patches:
>> > * s/tegra_init_early/tegra20_init_early/ in machine descriptions
>> > * Switch reset mechanism from CAR to PMC
>> > * tegra_init_cache modifications
>> > * Not sure if all the ifdef additions go in the above, or if some should be
>> >  separate?
>> >
>> > Still, I think it's probably OK to go in as it is even if it isn't optimal.
>>
>> Please at least split out the reset change.  Does using the PMC reset
>> instead of the CAR reset still result in a warm reset, or does it
>> change to a cold reset?
>
> What do you consider a cold reset in the tegra world?

Power rails turn off and on.  Some of our debugging tools rely on
memory contents surviving across a reset, and that is generally true
of a warm reset, but not a cold reset.
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