[PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: fsl: Update i.MX95 compatible

[Peng Fan]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 07:12:29AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>On 06/01/2025 03:51, Peng Fan wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: fsl: Update i.MX95
>>> compatible
>>>
>>> On 04/01/2025 13:13, Peng Fan (OSS) wrote:
>>>> From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
>>>>
>>>> i.MX95 features a System Controller and SCMI Spec 3.2 compatible
>>>> firmware System Manager(SM) runs on the controller.
>>>> Add "fsl,imx-sm" compatible string as fallback for "fsl,imx95" to
>>>> indicate it is compatible with i.MX System Manager.
>>>
>>> I see little value in generic compatible like that. All these are
>>> aarch64 so why not adding that compatible?
>>>
>>> How this generic compatible would be used?
>>>
>>> And by what exactly?
>> 
>> There will be more i.MX9 chips with System Manager. I would
>> not expand the list here each time to support a new SoC.
>> 
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13-rc3/source/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-scmi.c#L508
>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13-rc3/source/drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-imx-scmi.c#L290
>
>Problem is that compatible is way too generic to be used by Linux drivers.

Is "fsl,imx9-sm" feasible here?

Thanks,
Peng

>
>Best regards,
>Krzysztof