Aw: Re: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: Convert ahci-platform DT bindings to yaml

Frank Wunderlich frank-w at public-files.de
Sat Mar 5 02:07:48 PST 2022


Hi

> Gesendet: Samstag, 05. März 2022 um 00:37 Uhr
> Von: "Rob Herring" <robh at kernel.org>

> > > > +  ports-implemented:
> > > > +    $ref: '/schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32'
> > > > +    description:
> > > > +      Mask that indicates which ports that the HBA supports
> > > > +      are available for software to use. Useful if PORTS_IMPL
> > > > +      is not programmed by the BIOS, which is true with
> > > > +      some embedded SoCs.
> > > > +    maxItems: 1
> > >
> > > A uint32 is only ever 1 item. Drop.
> > >
> > > IIRC, isn't the max here 0xff? Add constraints.
> >
> > i've found it only set to 0x1 so i have currently set the maximum to 0x1, is this ok?
> > If some higher value is needed binding needs to be touched...
> 
> There's a spec for it, so no need to look at what's used. Calxeda AHCI
> had 5 ports IIRC.

as far as i understand code in libahci.c line 535+ [1]
i guess i need to set lower 5 bits to 1 for 5 ports, right? resulting in max value 0x1f

> > now i have only the marvell-errors about incomplete sata-port subnode (without phy/target-supply) like i mention in the patch...how to proceed with this?
> 
> So the child nodes are incomplete? They should be disabled then
> (status = "disabled") and that turns off required properties checks.

thanks, have disable the nodes and reenable them where phys/target-supply was added [2]...

now the dtbs_check is clean

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.17-rc6/source/drivers/ata/libahci.c#L535
[2] https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14/commits/5.17-next-20220225

regards Frank



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