[PATCH 2/7] arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-common-proc-board: Add mailboxes to C66x DSPs

[Suman Anna]

Hi Nishanth,

On 8/20/20 2:03 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 08:25-20200820, Suman Anna wrote:
> [...]
>>> I am just wondering if the carveouts and mbox linkage should be in the
>>> common processor board? if that makes sense at all? I know we already
>>> have other definitions.. Trying to see if we are making it harder to
>>> understand the definition than that is necessary..
>>
>> In general, I consider these as stuff that needs to be added to the board dts
>> files. You will see that this is what I have followed on all the TI
>> AM57xx/DRA7xx boards. For J721E, we have a weird organization as the memory
>> node, typically a board property, is defined in the som dtsi file, so the
>> reserved memory nodes are also added in the som dtsi file. The convention I
>> followed in general is to have the reserved-memory and memory nodes together.
>>
>> If you think the mailbox nodes should be moved into the SoM dts file, I could do
> 
> I think that might make more sense and less confusing. I'd rather
> leave the processor board dts for more signal and interface hookup
> related topics as it is done right now. if we do endup with too many
> SoM duplication, then we should consider it's own dtsi
> 
>> it as a follow-on cleanup series, but would wait for the ABI 3.0 changes to be
>> merged first.
> 
> Of course. We are expecting this to be part of rc2, please rebase and
> post once the tag is out. next-20200820 has it already, if you want a
> pre-look.
> 

So, the ABI 3.0 changes are not part of -rc2, so, I cannot move the unrelated
mailbox nodes/cleanup without conflicting with that series. Are you ok if I just
move these nodes into the SoM dtsi file?

regards
Suman