Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] Resolve MPM register space situation

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>]

On 8.12.2023 15:33, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Konrad!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 27 2023 at 16:52, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> 
> This list of version changes is useful, but seriously not on top of the
> cover letter. It makes me scroll down 60 lines to find the real meat.
Ack

> 
> <SNIP>
> 
>> Depends on resolution of https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/issues/104
> 
> Is this resolved? I can't figure out from this non-format whether this
> belongs to V1 or to the actual cover letter...
Yes it has been resolved since

> 
>> The MPM (and some other things, irrelevant to this patchset) resides
>> (as far as the ARM cores are concerned, anyway) in a MMIO-mapped region
>> that's a portion of the RPM (low-power management core)'s RAM, known
>> as the RPM Message RAM. Representing this relation in the Device Tree
>> creates some challenges, as one would either have to treat a memory
>> region as a bus, map nodes in a way such that their reg-s would be
>> overlapping, or supply the nodes with a slice of that region.
>>
>> This series implements the third option, by adding a qcom,rpm-msg-ram
>> property, which has been used for some drivers poking into this region
>> before. Bindings ABI compatibility is preserved through keeping the
>> "normal" (a.k.a read the reg property and map that region) way of
>> passing the register space.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by on the cover letter is completely meaningless.
Yes, I realize that. Blame b4.

Konrad