[PATCH] staging: tidspbridge: enable watchdog by default

Víctor M. Jáquez L. vjaquez at igalia.com
Wed Feb 15 09:43:57 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:56:11PM -0600, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> When that case is applicable, we should first modify the loader code
> >> or prepare the baseimages to be common so we can get rid of specific
> >> loaders and just dump them into memory.
> >
> > I'd say the less workarounds, the better.
> 
> If there are ever more base images compatible with the dsp, I would
> say that unifying them into a common format to be dumped in memory
> isn't a workaround, and in that process we can get rid of the custom
> loader code.

Yes! please! and use Ohad's rproc thingy.

What would be the steps to unify that common format? I guess we will depend on
TI for that... Do we?

vmjl

> 
> >> WDT could be detected by prepending common symbols into the baseimages
> >> or just making the new images to treat all peripherals as resources,
> >> that is, the new baseimg should actually request the wdt3 as any other
> >> clock.
> >
> > I see, but if wdt3 is requested as another clock, the Linux ARM side
> > would still need to know how to threat the WDT.
> 
> Tidspbridge does know how to treat other clock request from dsp (gpt,
> mcbsp), it would be a matter of adding the logic in the arm side for
> any dsp image that is able to do it, however this doesn't apply to the
> current (latest) base image since it assumes the wdt3 is always
> controlled by tidspbridge.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Omar
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