1. 07 10月, 2016 1 次提交
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      MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support · eed0eabd
      Paul Burton 提交于
      Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
      making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the
      MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made
      for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be
      changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to
      followon patches.
      
      Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in
      kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but
      nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by
      mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere & map
      itself appropriately.
      
      Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using
      scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc
      makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg.
      differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for
      differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of
      defconfig files.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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