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| author | Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org> | 2026-06-30 18:05:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> | 2026-08-05 16:48:11 +0100 |
| commit | bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530 (patch) | |
| tree | 6717fcea088ba5c5f15002a48101fa2537135bf2 /Documentation/PCI/controller | |
| download | linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.tar.gz linux-stable-bb3b2cfeb206f5b10b859e134651b54120e3f530.zip | |
ARM: 9480/1: entry: expand comment in __switch_tografted
As per discussion between the developers in the mail thread
linked, expand the comment in __switch_to so that readers
of the code understand what is going on.
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI/controller')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/controller/index.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/controller/rcar-pcie-firmware.rst | 32 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/controller/index.rst b/Documentation/PCI/controller/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c2ce9ccdc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/PCI/controller/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================================== +PCI Native Host Bridge and Endpoint Drivers +=========================================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + rcar-pcie-firmware diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/controller/rcar-pcie-firmware.rst b/Documentation/PCI/controller/rcar-pcie-firmware.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67d3bf66e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/PCI/controller/rcar-pcie-firmware.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================================================= +Firmware of PCIe controller for Renesas R-Car V4H +================================================= + +Renesas R-Car V4H (r8a779g0) has a PCIe controller, requiring a specific +firmware download during startup. + +However, Renesas currently cannot distribute the firmware free of charge. + +The firmware file "104_PCIe_fw_addr_data_ver1.05.txt" (note that the file name +might be different between different datasheet revisions) can be found in the +datasheet encoded as text, and as such, the file's content must be converted +back to binary form. This can be achieved using the following example script: + +.. code-block:: sh + + $ awk '/^\s*0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}\s+0x[0-9A-Fa-f]{4}/ { print substr($2,5,2) substr($2,3,2) }' \ + 104_PCIe_fw_addr_data_ver1.05.txt | \ + xxd -p -r > rcar_gen4_pcie.bin + +Once the text content has been converted into a binary firmware file, verify +its checksum as follows: + +.. code-block:: sh + + $ sha1sum rcar_gen4_pcie.bin + 1d0bd4b189b4eb009f5d564b1f93a79112994945 rcar_gen4_pcie.bin + +The resulting binary file called "rcar_gen4_pcie.bin" should be placed in the +"/lib/firmware" directory before the driver runs. |