[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: gpu: Add Mali Utgard bindings

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Jan 20 01:16:06 PST 2017


On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:

>> > +Optional properties:
>> > +  - interrupt-names:
>> > +    * pmu: Power Management Unit interrupt, if implemented in hardware
>>
>> On the MALI-400 MP in the ST-Ericsson DB8500 we have an additional interrupt
>> called "Mali400 combined". This is simply the HW designer's
>> doing an OR over all the 4 IRQ lines. Is this useful to define in the
>> bindings? Then it should be an optional
>
> Do you still have all the other interrupts, or just this combined interrupt?

We have the others too, I guess some HW engineer just thought it'd
be nice to have the combo.

> Either way, that should definitely be part of the binding, but maybe
> as part of the vendor specific binding below?

OK.

>>  * combined: all lines OR:ed together (if available)
>>
>> Also you are defining "resets" below in the examples, should
>> this be listed as an optional property?
>
> In my mind, this is not optional. For some platforms, it's mandatory,
> and for some, it's not there at all. IMO, this should really be a
> mandatory property, but only for the compatibles that use it (just
> like the clocks are).

OK.

Yours,
LInus Walleij



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