[PATCH v15 07/12] ARM: dts: append hip04 dts

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Jul 29 04:12:13 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:53:21AM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:44:40AM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> > Because I didn't get these materials yet. All clocks are enabled in bootloader.
> 
> What materials? Technical documentation for the CPU you're upstreaming?
> 
> It seems like a very bad idea to upstream a DT for a CPU that you don't
> have documentation for. It seems appropriate to wait until you have
> documentation so you can make sure that the hardware you're describing
> is actually what is there, and not something made-up or misdescribed.

I completely agree. Furthermore, given that this SoC implements a dodgy
custom GIC, I don't think it's unreasonable for us to ask for documentation
describing that too, otherwise it's going to make maintaining a complicated
irqchip driver that much worse.

Will



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