[PATCH v2 1/6] dt-bindings: reserved-memory: Add Owl SoC serial number binding
Manivannan Sadhasivam
mani at kernel.org
Fri Apr 2 19:06:07 BST 2021
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 08:40:01PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:07:04PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:48:16PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> > > Add devicetree binding for the Actions Semi Owl SoC serial number
> > > reserved-memory range.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > .../actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml | 53 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..41b71f47ee6c
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > > +%YAML 1.2
> > > +---
> > > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml#
> > > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > > +
> > > +title: Actions Semi Owl reserved-memory for SoC serial number
> > > +
> > > +maintainers:
> > > + - Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea at gmail.com>
> > > +
> > > +description: |
> > > + Provide access to the memory region where the two parts of the Actions
> > > + Semi Owl SoC serial number (low & high) can be read from. This information
> > > + is provided by the bootloader, hence expose it under /reserved-memory node.
> > > +
> > > + Please refer to reserved-memory.txt in this directory for common binding
> > > + part and usage.
> > > +
> > > + This is currently supported only on the S500 SoC variant.
> > > +
> > > +properties:
> > > + compatible:
> > > + oneOf:
> > > + - const: actions,owl-soc-serial
> > > + - items:
> > > + - enum:
> > > + - actions,s500-soc-serial
> > > + - const: actions,owl-soc-serial
> > > +
> > > + reg:
> > > + maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +required:
> > > + - compatible
> > > + - reg
> > > +
> > > +additionalProperties: true
> > > +
> > > +examples:
> > > + - |
> > > + reserved-memory {
> > > + #address-cells = <1>;
> > > + #size-cells = <1>;
> > > + ranges;
> > > +
> > > + soc_serial: soc-serial at 800 {
> > > + compatible = "actions,s500-soc-serial", "actions,owl-soc-serial";
> > > + reg = <0x800 0x8>;
> >
> > You end up wasting a whole page of memory for 8 bytes. It may be better
> > to copy this to a DT property ('serial-number' is already a defined root
> > property).
>
> Actually there is more information provided by the vendor bootloader
Then you should call it as socinfo or something not soc_serial.
Thanks,
Mani
> in this memory page, so we might use it once we are able to decode it.
> For the moment I could only identify the serial number.
>
> Thanks,
> Cristi
>
> > Rob
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