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authorLinus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>2026-06-30 18:05:56 +0100
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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>
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+Broadcom introduced new bus as replacement for older SSB. It is based on AMBA,
+however from programming point of view there is nothing AMBA specific we use.
+
+Standard AMBA drivers are platform specific, have hardcoded addresses and use
+AMBA standard fields like CID and PID.
+
+In case of Broadcom's cards every device consists of:
+1) Broadcom specific AMBA device. It is put on AMBA bus, but can not be treated
+ as standard AMBA device. Reading it's CID or PID can cause machine lockup.
+2) AMBA standard devices called ports or wrappers. They have CIDs (AMBA_CID)
+ and PIDs (0x103BB369), but we do not use that info for anything. One of that
+ devices is used for managing Broadcom specific core.
+
+Addresses of AMBA devices are not hardcoded in driver and have to be read from
+EPROM.
+
+In this situation we decided to introduce separated bus. It can contain up to
+16 devices identified by Broadcom specific fields: manufacturer, id, revision
+and class.