[PATCH v1 1/2] dt-bindings: cache: add specific RZ/Five compatible to ax45mp

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Mon May 12 04:53:23 PDT 2025


On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 12:05, Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 11:01:26AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 9 May 2025 at 17:39, Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > When the binding was originally written, it was assumed that all
> > > > > ax45mp-caches had the same properties etc. This has turned out to be
> > > > > incorrect, as the QiLai SoC has a different number of cache-sets.
> > > > >
> > > > > Add a specific compatible for the RZ/Five for property enforcement and
> > > > > in case there turns out to be additional differences between these
> > > > > implementations of the cache controller.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your patch!
> > > >
> > > > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/andestech,ax45mp-cache.yaml
> > > > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cache/andestech,ax45mp-cache.yaml
> > > > > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ select:
> > > > >  properties:
> > > > >    compatible:
> > > > >      items:
> > > > > +      - const: renesas,r9a07g043f-cache
> > > >
> > > > This name looks a bit too generic to me, as this is not a generic
> > > > cache on the R9A07G043F SoC, but specific to the CPU cores.
> > >
> > > So "reneasas,r9...-cpu-cache"?
> >
> > Maybe "renesas,r9a07g043f-riscv-cache" ?
> 
> "renesas,r9a07g043f-ax45mp-cache"?
> 
> There don't seem to be many vendor-specific derivatives of standardized
> caches, except for "brcm,bcm11351-a2-pl310-cache".

The sifive stuff is all "vendor,soc-cache" into "sifive,ccache" but
there's little ambiguity about there being an arm version of the same
soc there. I don't mind the "renesas,r9...-ax45mp-cache" one you
suggested, feels better than "riscv" to me.
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