[PATCH v2 00/20] Add minimal Tensor/GS101 SoC support and Oriole/Pixel6 board

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:52:22PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 03/11/2023 18:36, William McVicker wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> That's indeed a problem. Future Tesla SoC might have just few pieces
> >> similar to FSD. There would be no common SoC part, except the actual
> >> Tesla IP.
> >>
> >> Same for Google. Future GSXXX, if done by Qualcomm, will be absolutely
> >> different than GS101 and the only common part would be the TPU (Tensor).
> >>
> >> So now let's decide what is the common denominator:
> >> 1. Core SoC architecture, like buses, pinctrl, clocks, timers, serial,
> >> and many IP blocks, which constitute 95% of Devicetree bindings and drivers,
> >> 2. The one, big piece made by Samsung's customer: TPU, NPU or whatever.
> > 
> > As mentioned above, I think this should be based on how the DTBs and DTBOs are
> > used and distributed.
> 
> None of existing platforms do it. Nowhere. All chromebooks are split per
> SoC, not "how DTBs should be used and distributed". There is no google,
> no Chromebook directory. None of Samsung phones have it. No
> Samsung-phone directory. None of Google phones have Pixel directory.

but for code we have:
	drivers/patform/chrome/
	drivers/firmware/google/
	drivers/net/ethernet/google/

don't know if that matters or not, but thought I would mention it...

thanks,

greg k-h