Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/CompactFlash
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+README on the Compact Flash for Card Engines
+============================================
+
+There are three challenges in supporting the CF interface of the Card
+Engines.  First, every IO operation must be followed with IO to
+another memory region.  Second, the slot is wired for one-to-one
+address mapping *and* it is wired for 16 bit access only.  Second, the
+interrupt request line from the CF device isn't wired.
+
+The IOBARRIER issue is covered in README.IOBARRIER.  This isn't an
+onerous problem.  Enough said here.
+
+The addressing issue is solved in the
+arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/ide-lpd7a40x.c file with some awkward
+work-arounds.  We implement a special SELECT_DRIVE routine that is
+called before the IDE driver performs its own SELECT_DRIVE.  Our code
+recognizes that the SELECT register cannot be modified without also
+writing a command.  It send an IDLE_IMMEDIATE command on selecting a
+drive.  The function also prevents drive select to the slave drive
+since there can be only one.  The awkward part is that the IDE driver,
+even though we have a select procedure, also attempts to change the
+drive by writing directly the SELECT register.  This attempt is
+explicitly blocked by the OUTB function--not pretty, but effective.
+
+The lack of interrupts is a more serious problem.  Even though the CF
+card is fast when compared to a normal IDE device, we don't know that
+the CF is really flash.  A user could use one of the very small hard
+drives being shipped with a CF interface.  The IDE code includes a
+check for interfaces that lack an IRQ.  In these cases, submitting a
+command to the IDE controller is followed by a call to poll for
+completion.  If the device isn't immediately ready, it schedules a
+timer to poll again later.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/IOBarrier
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+README on the IOBARRIER for CardEngine IO
+=========================================
+
+Due to an unfortunate oversight when the Card Engines were designed,
+the signals that control access to some peripherals, most notably the
+SMC91C9111 ethernet controller, are not properly handled.
+
+The symptom is that some back to back IO with the peripheral returns
+unreliable data.  With the SMC chip, you'll see errors about the bank
+register being 'screwed'.
+
+The cause is that the AEN signal to the SMC chip does not transition
+for every memory access.  It is driven through the CPLD from the CS7
+line of the CPU's static memory controller which is optimized to
+eliminate unnecessary transitions.  Yet, the SMC requires a transition
+for every write access.  The Sharp website has more information about
+the effect this power-conserving feature has on peripheral
+interfacing.
+
+The solution is to follow every write access to the SMC chip with an
+access to another memory region that will force the CPU to release the
+chip select line.  It is important to guarantee that this access
+forces the CPU off-chip.  We map a page of SDRAM as if it were an
+uncacheable IO device and read from it after every SMC IO write
+operation.
+
+  SMC IO
+  BARRIER IO
+
+Only this sequence is important.  It does not matter that there is no
+BARRIER IO before the access to the SMC chip because the AEN latch
+only needs occurs after the SMC IO write cycle.  The routines that
+implement this work-around make an additional concession which is to
+disable interrupts during the IO sequence.  Other hardware devices
+(the LogicPD CPLD) have registers in the same the physical memory
+region as the SMC chip.  An interrupt might allow an access to one of
+those registers while SMC IO is being performed.
+
+You might be tempted to think that we have to access another device
+attached to the static memory controller, but the empirical evidence
+indicates that this is not so.  Mapping 0x00000000 (flash) and
+0xc0000000 (SDRAM) appear to have the same effect.  Using SDRAM seems
+to be faster.  Choosing to access an undecoded memory region is not
+desirable as there is no way to know how that chip select will be used
+in the future.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A400 b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/KEV7A400
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+README on Implementing Linux for Sharp's KEV7a400
+=================================================
+
+This product has been discontinued by Sharp.  For the time being, the
+partially implemented code remains in the kernel.  At some point in
+the future, either the code will be finished or it will be removed
+completely.  This depends primarily on how many of the development
+boards are in the field.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A400 b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A400
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+README on Implementing Linux for the Logic PD LPD7A400-10
+=========================================================
+
+- CPLD memory mapping
+
+  The board designers chose to use high address lines for controlling
+  access to the CPLD registers.  It turns out to be a big waste
+  because we're using an MMU and must map IO space into virtual
+  memory.  The result is that we have to make a mapping for every
+  register.
+
+- Serial Console
+
+  It may be OK not to use the serial console option if the user passes
+  the console device name to the kernel.  This deserves some exploration.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/LPD7A40X
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+README on Implementing Linux for the Logic PD LPD7A40X-10
+=========================================================
+
+- CPLD memory mapping
+
+  The board designers chose to use high address lines for controlling
+  access to the CPLD registers.  It turns out to be a big waste
+  because we're using an MMU and must map IO space into virtual
+  memory.  The result is that we have to make a mapping for every
+  register.
+
+- Serial Console
+
+  It may be OK not to use the serial console option if the user passes
+  the console device name to the kernel.  This deserves some exploration.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/SDRAM
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+README on the SDRAM Controller for the LH7a40X
+==============================================
+
+The standard configuration for the SDRAM controller generates a sparse
+memory array.  The precise layout is determined by the SDRAM chips.  A
+default kernel configuration assembles the discontiguous memory
+regions into separate memory nodes via the NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory
+Architecture) facilities.  In this default configuration, the kernel
+is forgiving about the precise layout.  As long as it is given an
+accurate picture of available memory by the bootloader the kernel will
+execute correctly.
+
+The SDRC supports a mode where some of the chip select lines are
+swapped in order to make SDRAM look like a synchronous ROM.  Setting
+this bit means that the RAM will present as a contiguous array.  Some
+programmers prefer this to the discontiguous layout.  Be aware that
+may be a penalty for this feature where some some configurations of
+memory are significantly reduced; i.e. 64MiB of RAM appears as only 32
+MiB.
+
+There are a couple of configuration options to override the default
+behavior.  When the SROMLL bit is set and memory appears as a
+contiguous array, there is no reason to support NUMA.
+CONFIG_LH7A40X_CONTIGMEM disables NUMA support.  When physical memory
+is discontiguous, the memory tables are organized such that there are
+two banks per nodes with a small gap between them.  This layout wastes
+some kernel memory for page tables representing non-existent memory.
+CONFIG_LH7A40X_ONE_BANK_PER_NODE optimizes the node tables such that
+there are no gaps.  These options control the low level organization
+of the memory management tables in ways that may prevent the kernel
+from booting or may cause the kernel to allocated excessively large
+page tables.  Be warned.  Only change these options if you know what
+you are doing.  The default behavior is a reasonable compromise that
+will suit all users.
+
+--
+
+A typical 32MiB system with the default configuration options will
+find physical memory managed as follows.
+
+   node 0: 0xc0000000 4MiB
+           0xc1000000 4MiB
+   node 1: 0xc4000000 4MiB
+           0xc5000000 4MiB
+   node 2: 0xc8000000 4MiB
+           0xc9000000 4MiB
+   node 3: 0xcc000000 4MiB
+           0xcd000000 4MiB
+
+Setting CONFIG_LH7A40X_ONE_BANK_PER_NODE will put each bank into a
+separate node.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController b/Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/VectoredInterruptController
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+README on the Vectored Interrupt Controller of the LH7A404
+==========================================================
+
+The 404 revision of the LH7A40X series comes with two vectored
+interrupts controllers.  While the kernel does use some of the
+features of these devices, it is far from the purpose for which they
+were designed.
+
+When this README was written, the implementation of the VICs was in
+flux.  It is possible that some details, especially with priorities,
+will change.
+
+The VIC support code is inspired by routines written by Sharp.
+
+
+Priority Control
+----------------
+
+The significant reason for using the VIC's vectoring is to control
+interrupt priorities.  There are two tables in
+arch/arm/mach-lh7a40x/irq-lh7a404.c that look something like this.
+
+  static unsigned char irq_pri_vic1[] = { IRQ_GPIO3INTR, };
+  static unsigned char irq_pri_vic2[] = {
+	IRQ_T3UI, IRQ_GPIO7INTR,
+	IRQ_UART1INTR, IRQ_UART2INTR, IRQ_UART3INTR, };
+
+The initialization code reads these tables and inserts a vector
+address and enable for each indicated IRQ.  Vectored interrupts have
+higher priority than non-vectored interrupts.  So, on VIC1,
+IRQ_GPIO3INTR will be served before any other non-FIQ interrupt.  Due
+to the way that the vectoring works, IRQ_T3UI is the next highest
+priority followed by the other vectored interrupts on VIC2.  After
+that, the non-vectored interrupts are scanned in VIC1 then in VIC2.
+
+
+ISR
+---
+
+The interrupt service routine macro get_irqnr() in
+arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S scans the VICs for the next active
+interrupt.  The vectoring makes this code somewhat larger than it was
+before using vectoring (refer to the LH7A400 implementation).  In the
+case where an interrupt is vectored, the implementation will tend to
+be faster than the non-vectored version.  However, the worst-case path
+is longer.
+
+It is worth noting that at present, there is no need to read
+VIC2_VECTADDR because the register appears to be shared between the
+controllers.  The code is written such that if this changes, it ought
+to still work properly.
+
+
+Vector Addresses
+----------------
+
+The proper use of the vectoring hardware would jump to the ISR
+specified by the vectoring address.  Linux isn't structured to take
+advantage of this feature, though it might be possible to change
+things to support it.
+
+In this implementation, the vectoring address is used to speed the
+search for the active IRQ.  The address is coded such that the lowest
+6 bits store the IRQ number for vectored interrupts.  These numbers
+correspond to the bits in the interrupt status registers.  IRQ zero is
+the lowest interrupt bit in VIC1.  IRQ 32 is the lowest interrupt bit
+in VIC2.  Because zero is a valid IRQ number and because we cannot
+detect whether or not there is a valid vectoring address if that
+address is zero, the eigth bit (0x100) is set for vectored interrupts.
+The address for IRQ 0x18 (VIC2) is 0x118.  Only the ninth bit is set
+for the default handler on VIC1 and only the tenth bit is set for the
+default handler on VIC2.
+
+In other words.
+
+  0x000		- no active interrupt
+  0x1ii		- vectored interrupt 0xii
+  0x2xx		- unvectored interrupt on VIC1 (xx is don't care)
+  0x4xx		- unvectored interrupt on VIC2 (xx is don't care)
+