[PATCH 8/9] ARM: mstar: Add smp ctrl registers to infinity2m dtsi

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Mon Nov 30 09:57:58 EST 2020


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 3:11 PM Daniel Palmer <daniel at 0x0f.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 22:44, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 2:10 PM Daniel Palmer <daniel at 0x0f.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > +&riu {
> > > +       smpctrl at 204000 {
> > > +               compatible = "mstar,smpctrl";
> > > +               reg = <0x204000 0x200>;
> > > +               status = "okay";
> > > +       };
> >
> > You probably want some more specific compatible value, in case there are
> > multiple SoCs from mstar that have an smpctrl block and they don't all use
> > an exactly identical register layout.
>
> From what I can tell these are in the same place for the infinity2m and
> the other SMP chip in this series that are in the infinity6 series.
>
> Would "mstar,i2m-smpctrl" make more sense?

Please use the exact name of the chip for the most specific name,
plus a generic identifier that makes sense for all of them. For the
generic identifier, you can normally just use whatever the oldest
chip is that you can find with that IP block.

      Arnd



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