[PATCH v2 0/7] soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-11-07T18:33:26Z

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:35:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@glider.be> wrote:
> > Some Renesas SoCs may exist in different revisions, providing slightly
> > different functionalities (e.g. R-Car H3 ES1.x and ES2.0), and behavior
> > (errate and quirks). This needs to be catered for by drivers and/or
> > platform code. The recently proposed soc_device_match() API seems like
> > a good fit to handle this.
> >
> > This patch series implements the core infrastructure to provide SoC and
> > revision information through the SoC bus for Renesas ARM SoCs. It
> > consists of 7 patches:
> > - Patches 1-4 provide soc_device_match(), with some related fixes,
> > - Patches 5-7 implement identification of Renesas SoCs and
> > registration with the SoC bus,
> >
> > Changes compared to v1:
> > - Add Acked-by,
> > - New patches:
> > - "[4/7] base: soc: Provide a dummy implementation of
> > soc_device_match()",
> > - "[5/7] ARM: shmobile: Document DT bindings for CCCR and PRR",
> > - "[6/7] arm64: dts: r8a7795: Add device node for PRR"
> > (more similar patches available, I'm not yet spamming you all
> > with them),
> > - Drop SoC families and family names; use fixed "Renesas" instead,
> > - Drop EMEV2, which doesn't have a chip ID register, and doesn't share
> > devices with other SoCs,
> > - Drop RZ/A1H and R-CAR M1A, which don't have chip ID registers (for
> > M1A: not accessible from the ARM core?),
> > - On arm, move "select SOC_BUS" from ARCH_RENESAS to Kconfig symbols
> > for SoCs that provide a chip ID register,
> > - Build renesas-soc only if SOC_BUS is enabled,
> > - Use "renesas,prr" and "renesas,cccr" device nodes in DT if
> > available, else fall back to hardcoded addresses for compatibility
> > with existing DTBs,
> > - Remove verification of product IDs; just print the ID instead,
> > - Don't register the SoC bus if the chip ID register is missing,
> > - Change R-Mobile APE6 fallback to use PRR instead of CCCR (it has
> > both).
> >
> > Merge strategy:
> > - In theory, patches 1-4 should go through Greg's driver core tree.
> > But it's a hard dependency for all users.
> > If people agree, I can provide an immutable branch in my
> > renesas-drivers repository, to be merged by all interested parties.
> > So far I'm aware of Freescale/NXP, and Renesas.
>
> And Samsung.

Yes, I would need it as well.

> Shall I create the immutable branch now?

...or the applying person could provide one.

Best regards,
Krzysztof