Re: [PATCH 3/4] dt-bindings: arm: qcom,ids: Add a bunch of older SoCs

[Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 03:40:52PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 12:53:47PM +0100, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> > Sync the SoC IDs in qcom,ids.h with relevant entries from Qualcomm's LK
> > bootloader [1] that is used for almost all older Qualcomm SoCs.
> > 
> > Several of these are already supported, e.g.:
> >   - MSM8960 -> APQ8060, MSM8260, ...
> >   - MSM8976 -> APQ8076
> >   - MSM8956 -> APQ8056
> > Others are currently being worked on, e.g.:
> >   - MSM8909(W) -> APQ8009(W), MSM8905, MSM8209, ...
> >   - MSM8939 -> MSM8239, ...
> > 
> > And even all remaining ones added are close enough to what is already
> > supported so that future support is realistic (if someone steps up to
> > do the work).
> > 
> > Add all of them at once to avoid having to add them one by one in the
> > future. This will also benefit other projects making use of the same
> > dt-bindings, e.g. bootloaders where adding support for all these SoCs
> > is a bit easier than on Linux.
> 
> The promise was in accepting the properties upstream is we'd only be 
> adding these for bootloaders with dtbs that we can't otherwise update or 
> change. Do all of those meet this criteria? Seems unlikely.
> 

Independent of the question about qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id, I would
like these constants for the socinfo driver (as shown in patch 4).

Would you prefer that we keep a separate list in Linux?

Thanks,
Bjorn