MIPS: generic: Add support for Ingenic SoCs

Add support for Ingenic SoCs in arch/mips/generic/.

The Kconfig changes are here to ensure that it is possible to compile
either a generic kernel that su

MIPS: generic: Add support for Ingenic SoCs

Add support for Ingenic SoCs in arch/mips/generic/.

The Kconfig changes are here to ensure that it is possible to compile
either a generic kernel that supports Ingenic SoCs, or a Ingenic-only
kernel, both using the same code base, to avoid duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of th

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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MIPS: kexec: Use prepare method from Generic for UHI platforms

Out-of-tree platforms may not be based on Generic as shown in customer
communication. Share the prepare method with all using UHI boot

MIPS: kexec: Use prepare method from Generic for UHI platforms

Out-of-tree platforms may not be based on Generic as shown in customer
communication. Share the prepare method with all using UHI boot protocol,
and put into machine_kexec.c.

The benefit is that, when having kexec_args related problems, developers
will naturally look into machine_kexec.c, where "CONFIG_UHI_BOOT" will be
found, prompting them to add "select UHI_BOOT" to the platform Kconfig. It
would otherwise require a lot debugging or online searching to be aware
that the solution is in Generic code.

Tested-by: Rachel Mozes <rachel.mozes@intel.com>
Reported-by: Rachel Mozes <rachel.mozes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20569/
Cc: pburton@wavecomp.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org

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MIPS: generic: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot

Introduce support for the MIPS based Microsemi Ocelot SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@l

MIPS: generic: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot

Introduce support for the MIPS based Microsemi Ocelot SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@microsemi.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18858/
[jhogan@kernel.org: update ocelot_defconfig specification]
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

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MIPS: generic: Fix Makefile alignment

Fix whitespace of generic platform Makefile so that obj-y values align.

Fixes: f2d0b0d5c171 ("MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board")
Signed-of

MIPS: generic: Fix Makefile alignment

Fix whitespace of generic platform Makefile so that obj-y values align.

Fixes: f2d0b0d5c171 ("MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@mips.com>
Cc: Goran Ferenc <goran.ferenc@mips.com>
Cc: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18582/

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MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board

Provide amendments to the MIPS generic platform framework so that
the new generic-based board Ranchu can be chosen to be built.

The Ranchu boar

MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board

Provide amendments to the MIPS generic platform framework so that
the new generic-based board Ranchu can be chosen to be built.

The Ranchu board is intended to be used by Android emulator. The name
"Ranchu" originates from Android development community. "Goldfish" and
"Ranchu" are terms used for two generations of virtual boards used by
Android emulator. The name "Ranchu" is a newer one among the two, and
this patch deals with Ranchu. However, for historical reasons, some
devices/drivers still contain the name "Goldfish".

MIPS Ranchu machine includes a number of Goldfish devices. The support
for Virtio devices is also included. Ranchu board supports up to 16
Virtio devices which can be attached using Virtio MMIO Bus. This is
summarized in the following picture:

ABUS
||----MIPS CPU
|| | IRQs
||----Goldfish PIC------------(32)--------
|| | | | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish TTY------ | | | | | | | |
|| | | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish RTC-------- | | | | | | |
|| | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish FB----------- | | | | | |
|| | | | | | |
||----Goldfish Events--------- | | | | |
|| | | | | |
||----Goldfish Audio------------ | | | |
|| | | | |
||----Goldfish Battery------------ | | |
|| | | |
||----Android PIPE------------------ | |
|| | |
||----Virtio MMIO Bus | |
|| | | | | |
|| | | (virtio-block)--------- |
|| (16) | |
|| | (virtio-net)------------------

Device Tree is created on the QEMU side based on the information about
devices IO map and IRQ numbers. Kernel will load this DTB using UHI
boot protocol DTB handover mode.

Signed-off-by: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Goran Ferenc <goran.ferenc@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18138/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

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Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those

Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those who:

- Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com
email address, or any patches dated within the past year.

- Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business
unit, as determined from an internal email address list.

- Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed
a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej).

- Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt &
myself.

New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all
verified against an internal email address list. An entry is added to
.mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new
addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead.

Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then
mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Acked-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those

Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those who:

- Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com
email address, or any patches dated within the past year.

- Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business
unit, as determined from an internal email address list.

- Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed
a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej).

- Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt &
myself.

New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all
verified against an internal email address list. An entry is added to
.mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new
addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead.

Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then
mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Acked-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17540/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

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MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: Pull YAMON DT shim code out of SEAD-3 board

In preparation for supporting other YAMON-using boards (Malta) & sharing
code to translate information from YAMON into device tree

MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: Pull YAMON DT shim code out of SEAD-3 board

In preparation for supporting other YAMON-using boards (Malta) & sharing
code to translate information from YAMON into device tree properties,
pull the code doing so for the kernel command line, system memory &
serial configuration out of the SEAD-3 board code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16181/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic/kexec: add support for a DTB passed in a separate buffer

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linu

MIPS: generic/kexec: add support for a DTB passed in a separate buffer

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14615/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board

Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and

MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board

Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and we don't want
to force a switch to the UHI protocol, SEAD-3 is added as a legacy board
which is detected by reading the REVISION register. This may technically
not be a valid memory read & future work will include attempting to
handle that gracefully. In practice since SEAD-3 is the only legacy
board supported by the generic kernel so far the read will only happen
on SEAD-3 boards, and even once Malta is converted the same REVISION
register exists there too. Other boards such as Boston, Ci20 & Ci40 will
use the UHI boot protocol & thus not run any of the legacy board detect
functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support

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

MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support

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: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic: Add support for Ingenic SoCs

Add support for Ingenic SoCs in arch/mips/generic/.

The Kconfig changes are here to ensure that it is possible to compile
either a ge

MIPS: generic: Add support for Ingenic SoCs

Add support for Ingenic SoCs in arch/mips/generic/.

The Kconfig changes are here to ensure that it is possible to compile
either a generic kernel that supports Ingenic SoCs, or a Ingenic-only
kernel, both using the same code base, to avoid duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it u

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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MIPS: kexec: Use prepare method from Generic for UHI platforms

Out-of-tree platforms may not be based on Generic as shown in customer
communication. Share the prepare method with all usi

MIPS: kexec: Use prepare method from Generic for UHI platforms

Out-of-tree platforms may not be based on Generic as shown in customer
communication. Share the prepare method with all using UHI boot protocol,
and put into machine_kexec.c.

The benefit is that, when having kexec_args related problems, developers
will naturally look into machine_kexec.c, where "CONFIG_UHI_BOOT" will be
found, prompting them to add "select UHI_BOOT" to the platform Kconfig. It
would otherwise require a lot debugging or online searching to be aware
that the solution is in Generic code.

Tested-by: Rachel Mozes <rachel.mozes@intel.com>
Reported-by: Rachel Mozes <rachel.mozes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20569/
Cc: pburton@wavecomp.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org

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MIPS: generic: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot

Introduce support for the MIPS based Microsemi Ocelot SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc:

MIPS: generic: Add support for Microsemi Ocelot

Introduce support for the MIPS based Microsemi Ocelot SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@microsemi.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18858/
[jhogan@kernel.org: update ocelot_defconfig specification]
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

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MIPS: generic: Fix Makefile alignment

Fix whitespace of generic platform Makefile so that obj-y values align.

Fixes: f2d0b0d5c171 ("MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based b

MIPS: generic: Fix Makefile alignment

Fix whitespace of generic platform Makefile so that obj-y values align.

Fixes: f2d0b0d5c171 ("MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@mips.com>
Cc: Goran Ferenc <goran.ferenc@mips.com>
Cc: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18582/

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MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board

Provide amendments to the MIPS generic platform framework so that
the new generic-based board Ranchu can be chosen to be built.

MIPS: ranchu: Add Ranchu as a new generic-based board

Provide amendments to the MIPS generic platform framework so that
the new generic-based board Ranchu can be chosen to be built.

The Ranchu board is intended to be used by Android emulator. The name
"Ranchu" originates from Android development community. "Goldfish" and
"Ranchu" are terms used for two generations of virtual boards used by
Android emulator. The name "Ranchu" is a newer one among the two, and
this patch deals with Ranchu. However, for historical reasons, some
devices/drivers still contain the name "Goldfish".

MIPS Ranchu machine includes a number of Goldfish devices. The support
for Virtio devices is also included. Ranchu board supports up to 16
Virtio devices which can be attached using Virtio MMIO Bus. This is
summarized in the following picture:

ABUS
||----MIPS CPU
|| | IRQs
||----Goldfish PIC------------(32)--------
|| | | | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish TTY------ | | | | | | | |
|| | | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish RTC-------- | | | | | | |
|| | | | | | | |
||----Goldfish FB----------- | | | | | |
|| | | | | | |
||----Goldfish Events--------- | | | | |
|| | | | | |
||----Goldfish Audio------------ | | | |
|| | | | |
||----Goldfish Battery------------ | | |
|| | | |
||----Android PIPE------------------ | |
|| | |
||----Virtio MMIO Bus | |
|| | | | | |
|| | | (virtio-block)--------- |
|| (16) | |
|| | (virtio-net)------------------

Device Tree is created on the QEMU side based on the information about
devices IO map and IRQ numbers. Kernel will load this DTB using UHI
boot protocol DTB handover mode.

Signed-off-by: Miodrag Dinic <miodrag.dinic@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Goran Ferenc <goran.ferenc@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/18138/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

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Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the add

Update MIPS email addresses

MIPS will soon not be a part of Imagination Technologies, and as such
many @imgtec.com email addresses will no longer be valid. This patch
updates the addresses for those who:

- Have 10 or more patches in mainline authored using an @imgtec.com
email address, or any patches dated within the past year.

- Are still with Imagination but leaving as part of the MIPS business
unit, as determined from an internal email address list.

- Haven't already updated their email address (ie. JamesH) or expressed
a desire to be excluded (ie. Maciej).

- Acked v2 or earlier of this patch, which leaves Deng-Cheng, Matt &
myself.

New addresses are of the form firstname.lastname@mips.com, and all
verified against an internal email address list. An entry is added to
.mailmap for each person such that get_maintainer.pl will report the new
addresses rather than @imgtec.com addresses which will soon be dead.

Instances of the affected addresses throughout the tree are then
mechanically replaced with the new @mips.com address.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Acked-by: Dengcheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Acked-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: Pull YAMON DT shim code out of SEAD-3 board

In preparation for supporting other YAMON-using boards (Malta) & sharing
code to translate information from YAMON into

MIPS: generic/yamon-dt: Pull YAMON DT shim code out of SEAD-3 board

In preparation for supporting other YAMON-using boards (Malta) & sharing
code to translate information from YAMON into device tree properties,
pull the code doing so for the kernel command line, system memory &
serial configuration out of the SEAD-3 board code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16181/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic/kexec: add support for a DTB passed in a separate buffer

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https:

MIPS: generic/kexec: add support for a DTB passed in a separate buffer

Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14615/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board

Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was

MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board

Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and we don't want
to force a switch to the UHI protocol, SEAD-3 is added as a legacy board
which is detected by reading the REVISION register. This may technically
not be a valid memory read & future work will include attempting to
handle that gracefully. In practice since SEAD-3 is the only legacy
board supported by the generic kernel so far the read will only happen
on SEAD-3 boards, and even once Malta is converted the same REVISION
register exists there too. Other boards such as Boston, Ci20 & Ci40 will
use the UHI boot protocol & thus not run any of the legacy board detect
functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support

Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined

MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support

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: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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