[PATCH v2 08/15] dt-bindings: arm: cpus: Document qcom,msm8916-smp enable-method

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Thu Oct 14 09:40:43 PDT 2021


On Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:49:48 +0200, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> Since MSM8916 is an ARM v8 64-bit SoC the CPU cores are normally booted
> using "psci" or "spin-table". Unfortunately, some devices come with signed
> 32-bit-only firmware without ARM64 and PSCI support. This setup is easy to
> support since it's very similar to older 32-bit only Qualcomm SoCs
> (e.g. MSM8226) and only requires adding a few new definitions to already
> existing drivers.
> 
> Document the qcom,msm8916-smp enable-method. It is actually just an alias
> of qcom,msm8226-smp since it should be implemented identically.
> The enable-method is only valid on ARM32 and must not be used on ARM64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan at gerhold.net>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Clarify that this is only supposed to be used on ARM 32-bit
>     (Add comment to commit message and DT schema)
> 
> The "see above for ARM v8 64-bit" comment refers to this a few lines
> above in the DT schema:
> 
>       # On ARM v8 64-bit this property is required
>       - enum:
>           - psci
>           - spin-table
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.yaml | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>



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