linux/drivers/bcma
Hauke Mehrtens ecd177c216 bcma: add SOC bus
This patch adds support for using bcma on a Broadcom SoC as the system
bus. An SoC like the bcm4716 could register this bus and use it to
searches for the bcma cores and register the devices on this bus.

BCMA_HOSTTYPE_NONE was intended for SoCs at first but BCMA_HOSTTYPE_SOC
is a better name.

Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
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bcma_private.h bcma: add functions to scan cores needed on SoCs 2011-08-08 14:29:24 -04:00
core.c bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
driver_chipcommon_pmu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-07-25 13:56:39 -07:00
driver_chipcommon.c bcma: add functions to scan cores needed on SoCs 2011-08-08 14:29:24 -04:00
driver_pci_host.c bcma: detect PCI core working in hostmode 2011-07-07 13:13:34 -04:00
driver_pci.c bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
host_pci.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-06-24 15:25:51 -04:00
host_soc.c bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
Kconfig bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
main.c bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
Makefile bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
README bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver 2011-05-10 15:54:54 -04:00
scan.c bcma: add SOC bus 2011-08-08 14:29:25 -04:00
scan.h bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver 2011-05-10 15:54:54 -04:00
sprom.c bcma: handle alternative SPROM location 2011-07-19 16:49:53 -04:00
TODO bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver 2011-05-10 15:54:54 -04:00

Broadcom introduced new bus as replacement for older SSB. It is based on AMBA,
however from programming point of view there is nothing AMBA specific we use.

Standard AMBA drivers are platform specific, have hardcoded addresses and use
AMBA standard fields like CID and PID.

In case of Broadcom's cards every device consists of:
1) Broadcom specific AMBA device. It is put on AMBA bus, but can not be treated
   as standard AMBA device. Reading it's CID or PID can cause machine lockup.
2) AMBA standard devices called ports or wrappers. They have CIDs (AMBA_CID)
   and PIDs (0x103BB369), but we do not use that info for anything. One of that
   devices is used for managing Broadcom specific core.

Addresses of AMBA devices are not hardcoded in driver and have to be read from
EPROM.

In this situation we decided to introduce separated bus. It can contain up to
16 devices identified by Broadcom specific fields: manufacturer, id, revision
and class.