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authorDirk B <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>2015-12-16 10:11:41 +0300
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2015-12-21 11:58:58 +0300
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ARM: 8484/1: Documentation: l2c2x0: Mention separate controllers explicitly
The documentation in l2c2x0.txt is only valid for L2C210/L2C220/L2C310 (also known as PL210/PL220/PL310 and variants). Mention this explicitly. And add a note why this isn't valid for integrated L2 controllers. Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
index 06c88a4d28ac..1c0435446ecc 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/l2c2x0.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
* ARM L2 Cache Controller
-ARM cores often have a separate level 2 cache controller. There are various
-implementations of the L2 cache controller with compatible programming models.
+ARM cores often have a separate L2C210/L2C220/L2C310 (also known as PL210/PL220/
+PL310 and variants) based level 2 cache controller. All these various implementations
+of the L2 cache controller have compatible programming models (Note 1).
Some of the properties that are just prefixed "cache-*" are taken from section
3.7.3 of the ePAPR v1.1 specification which can be found at:
https://www.power.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf
@@ -91,3 +92,9 @@ L2: cache-controller {
cache-level = <2>;
interrupts = <45>;
};
+
+Note 1: The description in this document doesn't apply to integrated L2
+ cache controllers as found in e.g. Cortex-A15/A7/A57/A53. These
+ integrated L2 controllers are assumed to be all preconfigured by
+ early secure boot code. Thus no need to deal with their configuration
+ in the kernel at all.