From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] ARM: DT: kernel: DT cpu node bindings update
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:24:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366215849.24994.70.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516EBC66.20508@wwwdotorg.org>
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 09:14 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 03:14 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> >>> + - enable-method
> >>> + Usage: required on ARM 64-bit systems, optional on ARM 32-bit
> >>> + systems
> >>> + Value type: <string>
> >>> + Definition: On ARM 64-bit systems must be "spin-table" [1].
> >>
> >> Can that be an integer instead? with dtc+cpp support, that shouldn't
> >> hurt the eyes too much any more.
> >
> > The "enable-method" property is described as a stringlist by ePAPR, and is
> > currently in use on arm64 as such. It *must* remain a string(list) for arm64.
> >
> > Having it as an integer for arm is only going to cause us additional work,
> > makes it impossible to share a common dt between 64bit and 32bit, and goes
> > against the standard. I think it should be a stringlist for arm.
>
> OK, that's a great reason for this case.
>
> I hope we don't introduce any more standards that use strings, but that
> may just be my personal preference...
I happen to have the exact opposite opinion :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-17 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 16:13 [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: DT cpu bindings updates Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-04-15 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] ARM: DT: kernel: move temporary cpu map stack array to static data Lorenzo Pieralisi
[not found] ` <1366042402-8987-1-git-send-email-lorenzo.pieralisi-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-15 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ARM: DT: kernel: DT cpu node bindings update Lorenzo Pieralisi
[not found] ` <1366042402-8987-3-git-send-email-lorenzo.pieralisi-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-15 19:26 ` Stephen Warren
2013-04-16 10:45 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
[not found] ` <20130416104545.GA19837-7AyDDHkRsp3ZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-16 15:57 ` Stephen Warren
2013-04-16 16:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <516C544A.4090107-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-16 14:30 ` Dave Martin
2013-04-17 9:14 ` Mark Rutland
[not found] ` <20130417091457.GB5012-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-17 15:14 ` Stephen Warren
2013-04-17 16:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.03.1304171146530.17375-hIgblCxmbi8OMTOF05IoTw@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-17 16:23 ` Stephen Warren
[not found] ` <516ECC8A.2070508-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-17 16:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.03.1304171231130.17375-hIgblCxmbi8OMTOF05IoTw@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-17 16:56 ` Dave Martin
2013-04-17 16:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
[not found] ` <516EBC66.20508-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-18 12:40 ` Grant Likely
2013-04-16 2:41 ` Simon Horman
2013-04-16 11:00 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-04-17 9:35 ` Nicolas Ferre
2013-04-17 11:44 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2013-04-17 9:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-17 11:02 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
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