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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 01:38:28 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 01:38:28 +0300
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Merge tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC platform changes from Arnd Bergmann: "New and updated SoC support, notable changes include: - bcm: brcmstb SMP support initial iproc/cygnus support - exynos: Exynos4415 SoC support PMU and suspend support for Exynos5420 PMU support for Exynos3250 pm related maintenance - imx: new LS1021A SoC support vybrid 610 global timer support - integrator: convert to using multiplatform configuration - mediatek: earlyprintk support for mt8127/mt8135 - meson: meson8 soc and l2 cache controller support - mvebu: Armada 38x CPU hotplug support drop support for prerelease Armada 375 Z1 stepping extended suspend support, now works on Armada 370/XP - omap: hwmod related maintenance prcm cleanup - pxa: initial pxa27x DT handling - rockchip: SMP support for rk3288 add cpu frequency scaling support - shmobile: r8a7740 power domain support various small restart, timer, pci apmu changes - sunxi: Allwinner A80 (sun9i) earlyprintk support - ux500: power domain support Overall, a significant chunk of changes, coming mostly from the usual suspects: omap, shmobile, samsung and mvebu, all of which already contain a lot of platform specific code in arch/arm" * tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (187 commits) ARM: mvebu: use the cpufreq-dt platform_data for independent clocks soc: integrator: Add terminating entry for integrator_cm_match ARM: mvebu: add SDRAM controller description for Armada XP ARM: mvebu: adjust mbus controller description on Armada 370/XP ARM: mvebu: add suspend/resume DT information for Armada XP GP ARM: mvebu: synchronize secondary CPU clocks on resume ARM: mvebu: make sure MMU is disabled in armada_370_xp_cpu_resume ARM: mvebu: Armada XP GP specific suspend/resume code ARM: mvebu: reserve the first 10 KB of each memory bank for suspend/resume ARM: mvebu: implement suspend/resume support for Armada XP clk: mvebu: add suspend/resume for gatable clocks bus: mvebu-mbus: provide a mechanism to save SDRAM window configuration bus: mvebu-mbus: suspend/resume support clocksource: time-armada-370-xp: add suspend/resume support irqchip: armada-370-xp: Add suspend/resume support ARM: add lolevel debug support for asm9260 ARM: add mach-asm9260 ARM: EXYNOS: use u8 for val[] in struct exynos_pmu_conf power: reset: imx-snvs-poweroff: add power off driver for i.mx6 ARM: imx: temporarily remove CONFIG_SOC_FSL from LS1021A ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt b/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/arm/firmware.txt
@@ -7,32 +7,14 @@ world, which changes the way some things have to be initialized. This makes
a need to provide an interface for such platforms to specify available firmware
operations and call them when needed.
-Firmware operations can be specified using struct firmware_ops
-
- struct firmware_ops {
- /*
- * Enters CPU idle mode
- */
- int (*do_idle)(void);
- /*
- * Sets boot address of specified physical CPU
- */
- int (*set_cpu_boot_addr)(int cpu, unsigned long boot_addr);
- /*
- * Boots specified physical CPU
- */
- int (*cpu_boot)(int cpu);
- /*
- * Initializes L2 cache
- */
- int (*l2x0_init)(void);
- };
-
-and then registered with register_firmware_ops function
+Firmware operations can be specified by filling in a struct firmware_ops
+with appropriate callbacks and then registering it with register_firmware_ops()
+function.
void register_firmware_ops(const struct firmware_ops *ops)
-the ops pointer must be non-NULL.
+The ops pointer must be non-NULL. More information about struct firmware_ops
+and its members can be found in arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h header.
There is a default, empty set of operations provided, so there is no need to
set anything if platform does not require firmware operations.