[PATCH 2/4] MIPS: Add support for Siflower MIPS SoCs
From: Joseph Telaak via B4 Relay
Date: Wed Nov 04 2026 - 02:25:04 EST
From: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@xxxxxxxxx>
Siflower MIPS SoCs like SF19A2890 use a dual-core MIPS InterAptiv
processor, built-in GMAC, USB, dual-band WiFi and various other
peripherals.
Notably, they use some ARM PLxxx peripherals, and ARM_AMBA is
selected for the drivers.
Most devices on the market with this chip come with 64M or less
DRAM. A kmalloc.h with malloc alignment override is added to
conserve memory, and a MACH_SIFLOWER_MIPS is created with reduced
features instead of using the generic kernel.
Signed-off-by: Chuanhong Guo <gch981213@xxxxxxxxx>
[jt: rebased on v7.4-rc1, "MIPS:" prefix, longer Kconfig help, commit
message grammar and paragraphs, MAINTAINERS line]
Signed-off-by: Joseph Telaak <joseph@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
arch/mips/Kconfig | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/mips/generic/Platform | 1 +
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower/kmalloc.h | 9 ++++++++
4 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 2a7a083f2..9e715a168 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -25703,6 +25703,7 @@ M: Joseph Telaak <joseph@xxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
S: Maintained
F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/siflower.yaml
+F: arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower/
F: drivers/gpio/gpio-siflower.c
N: sf19a2890
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index ed17c9b16..e10145ede 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -937,6 +937,38 @@ config SIBYTE_BIGSUR
select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
select SWIOTLB if ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT && PCI
+config MACH_SIFLOWER_MIPS
+ bool "Siflower MIPS SoCs"
+ select MIPS_GENERIC
+ select MACH_GENERIC_CORE
+ select ARM_AMBA
+ select BOOT_RAW
+ select CEVT_R4K
+ select CLKSRC_MIPS_GIC
+ select COMMON_CLK
+ select CPU_MIPSR2_IRQ_EI
+ select CPU_MIPSR2_IRQ_VI
+ select CSRC_R4K
+ select DMA_NONCOHERENT
+ select IRQ_MIPS_CPU
+ select MIPS_CPU_SCACHE
+ select MIPS_GIC
+ select MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_5
+ select NO_EXCEPT_FILL
+ select SMP_UP if SMP
+ select SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS32_R2
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_MIPS16
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_MIPS_CPS
+ select SYS_SUPPORTS_MULTITHREADING
+ select USE_OF
+ help
+ Select this to build a kernel which supports SoCs from Siflower
+ with MIPS InterAptiv cores, like Siflower SF19A2890. These have
+ ARM PrimeCell peripherals, so ARM_AMBA is selected, and 32-byte
+ cache lines, which allows a smaller kmalloc alignment.
+
config SNI_RM
bool "SNI RM200/300/400"
select ARC_MEMORY
diff --git a/arch/mips/generic/Platform b/arch/mips/generic/Platform
index 0c03623f3..c09a8484d 100644
--- a/arch/mips/generic/Platform
+++ b/arch/mips/generic/Platform
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
# Note: order matters, keep the asm/mach-generic include last.
cflags-$(CONFIG_MACH_INGENIC_SOC) += -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ingenic
+cflags-$(CONFIG_MACH_SIFLOWER_MIPS) += -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower
cflags-$(CONFIG_MIPS_GENERIC) += -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic
load-$(CONFIG_MIPS_GENERIC) += 0xffffffff80100000
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower/kmalloc.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower/kmalloc.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0b270e2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-siflower/kmalloc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __ASM_MACH_SIFLOWER_KMALLOC_H
+#define __ASM_MACH_SIFLOWER_KMALLOC_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT
+#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 32
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MACH_SIFLOWER_KMALLOC_H */
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