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

Tommaso Merciai
2025-03-14T11:30:24Z

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.
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