[PATCH v3 1/3] dt-bindings: hwlock: Adding brcmstb-hwspinlock support

Kamal Dasu kamal.dasu at broadcom.com
Tue Oct 14 08:40:08 PDT 2025


On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/10/2025 23:20, Kamal Dasu wrote:
> > The broadcom settop SoCs have hardware semaphores as part of "sundry"
> > IP block which has other controls that do not belong anywhere else.
> > e.g. pin/mux controls, SoC identification, drive strength, reset controls,
> > and other misc bits are part of this block.
>
> This does not explain why this has to be a separate block. Rob comment
> stays valid - this belongs to parent node.
>

We do not have a separate parent node where this will fit in. We have
the DWORD aligned  register defined here as organized in the SUNDRY
block.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 5461 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20251014/4386d856/attachment-0001.p7s>


More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list