Re: [PATCH 6.1.y-cip 00/85] soc: renesas: Add RZ/G3E support

Tommaso Merciai
2025-03-14T11:40:24Z

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:30:06PM +0100, Tommaso Merciai wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:06:33AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > What is RZ/G3E? Is it new generation of something? Is it used
> > > > somewhere?
> > >
> > > The RZ/G3E device is a general-purpose microprocessor with a quad-core CA-55,
> > > single core CM-33, Ethos-U55 NPU, Mali-G52 3-D Graphics and other peripherals.
> > >
> > > Here the first introduction to the kernel: [1]
> >
> > Ok, thanks for pointer, that is useful.
> >
> > What is relation between RZ/G3E and rzg2l? Because early patches seem
> > to be for rzg2l support, not RZ/G3E. Splitting those preparations up
> > would be good.
>
> Thanks for your comment.
>
> RZ/G3E and RZ/G2L SoC have some similar IP's.

Sorry, to be more precise:
RZ/G3E, RZ/V2H and RZ/G2L SoC have some similar IP's.

> For that we need some patches for RZ/G2L in preparation to support
> RZ/G3E.
>
> >
> > > > Why is it important? Why is it important for -cip?
> > > >
> > > > Does this add complete support? Or just enough to boot?
> > >
> > > At the moment mainline supports only boot. So same backported here.
> > > Going foward will add complete support.
> >
> > Ok, 85 patches in the series is really a bit hard to work with. It
> > seems dts is merged quite early in the series, so that should be good
> > place to split stuff. Could we get smaller series (perhaps 15
> > patches?) with only stuff that's already in 6.12?
>
> Fully agree.
> I will split backporting in smaller patchset as you suggested.
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pavel
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> Regards,
> Tommaso

Thanks & Regards,
Tommaso