Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] arm64,hi6220: Enable Hisilicon Hi6220 SoC

From: Leo Yan
Date: Mon May 11 2015 - 23:06:06 EST


hi Kevin,

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:20:54PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Brent Wang <wangbintian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello Kevin,
> >
> > 2015-05-08 4:30 GMT+08:00 Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> Bintian Wang <bintian.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi6220 is one mobile solution of Hisilicon, this patchset contains
> >>> initial support for Hi6220 SoC and HiKey development board, which
> >>> supports octal ARM Cortex A53 cores. Initial support is minimal and
> >>> includes just the arch configuration, clock driver, device tree
> >>> configuration.
> >>>
> >>> PSCI is enabled in device tree and there is no problem to boot all the
> >>> octal cores, and the CPU hotplug is also working now, you can download
> >>> and compile the latest firmware based on the following link to run this
> >>> patch set:
> >>> https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/UEFI
> >>
> >> Do you have any tips for booting this using the HiSi bootloader? It
> >> seems that I need to add the magic hisi,boardid property for dtbTool to
> >> work. Could you share what that magic value is?
> > Yes, you need it.
> > Hisilicon has many different development boards and those boards have some
> > different hardware configuration, so we need different device tree
> > files for them.
> > the original hisi,boardid is used to distinguish different boards and
> > used by the
> > bootloader to judge which device tree to use at boot-up.
> >
> >> and maybe add it to the wiki someplace?
> > Maybe add to section "Known Issues" in
> > "https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/UEFI";
> > is a good choice, I will update this section later.
>
> You updated the wiki, but you didn't specify what the value should be
> for this to work with the old bootloader.
>
> Can you please give the value of that property?
>
> Also, have you tested this series with the old bootloader as well?

Below are my testing result w/t Bintian's patches and Hisilicon old
bootloader:
- Need add property "hisi,boardid" into dts;
- Need change cpu enable-method from "psci" to "spin-table";
- The bootloader has not initialized register *cntfrq_el0* so will
introduce the failure during init arch timer.

For init cntfrq_el0, we need fix this issue in Hisilicon's old
bootloader, rather than directly add "clock-frequency" for arch
timer's node in DTS. i will try to commit one patch for fix this
issue for Hisilicon's old bootloader.

So i think upper issues mainly are introduced by Hisilicon's old
bootloader but not come from Bintian's patches. How about u think for
this?

Below is my local diff which is used to compatible w/t Hisilicon's
old bootloader; Just for your reference.

Thanks,
Leo Yan

---8<---

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220-hikey.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220-hikey.dts
index e36a539..fd1f89e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220-hikey.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220-hikey.dts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@

/ {
model = "HiKey Development Board";
+ hisi,boardid = <0 0 4 3>;
compatible = "hisilicon,hi6220-hikey", "hisilicon,hi6220";

aliases {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220.dtsi
index 229937f..8ade3d9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/hisilicon/hi6220.dtsi
@@ -13,11 +13,6 @@
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <2>;

- psci {
- compatible = "arm,psci-0.2";
- method = "smc";
- };
-
cpus {
#address-cells = <2>;
#size-cells = <0>;
@@ -57,56 +52,64 @@
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x0>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu1: cpu@1 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x1>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu2: cpu@2 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x2>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu3: cpu@3 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x3>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu4: cpu@100 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x100>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu5: cpu@101 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x101>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu6: cpu@102 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x102>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};

cpu7: cpu@103 {
compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
device_type = "cpu";
reg = <0x0 0x103>;
- enable-method = "psci";
+ enable-method = "spin-table";
+ cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x740fff8>;
};
};

@@ -129,6 +132,7 @@
<GIC_PPI 14 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(8) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>,
<GIC_PPI 11 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(8) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>,
<GIC_PPI 10 (GIC_CPU_MASK_SIMPLE(8) | IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW)>;
+ clock-frequency = <1200000>;
};

soc {
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