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There are two reasons for having this header in the common place: 1) Simplifying drivers that read NVRAM entries. We will be able to safely call bcm47xx_nvram_* functions without #ifdef-s. 2) Getting NVRAM driver out of MIPS arch code. This is needed to support BCM5301X arch which also requires this NVRAM driver. Patch for that will follow once we get is reviewed. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Cc: linux-soc@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8619/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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.