[PATCH 5/5] arm64: marvell: add Device Tree files for Armada 7K/8K

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Feb 17 00:30:45 PST 2016


Hello,

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:21:24 +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> > > I guess the GIC is neither the one in cortex-a15 or cortex-a9.   
> > 
> > What makes you think this?
> > 
> > The GIC is a GIC400, which is GICv2 compliant, and arm-cortex-a15-gic /
> 
> That's my point, why not "gic-400" explicitly?

Yes, we could use arm,gic-400 instead. Note that implementation-wise,
there is currently zero difference between arm,cortex-a9-gic,
arm,cortex-a15-gic and arm,gic-400. But indeed arm,gic-400 looks better.

Thanks!

Thomas
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