Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] soc: qcom: Add device tree binding for SMEM

[Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:56:34PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 06/26/2015 02:50 PM, bjorn@kryo.se wrote:
> > += EXAMPLE
> > +The following example shows the SMEM setup for MSM8974, with a main SMEM region
> > +at 0xfa00000 and an auxiliary region at 0xfc428000:
> > +
> > +	reserved-memory {
> > +		#address-cells = <1>;
> > +		#size-cells = <1>;
> > +		ranges;
> > +
> > +		smem_region: smem@fa00000 {
> > +			reg = <0xfa00000 0x200000>;
> > +			no-map;
> > +		};
> > +	};
> > +
> > +	smem@fa00000 {
> 
> This should be smem@fc428000 matching the first reg property. It's weird
> though, because if smem is using a secondary region it will be under the
> SoC node and have a reg property. Otherwise it would be directly under
> the root node and only have a memory-region. It would be nice if we
> could somehow move the rpm message ram (0xfc428000) into the
> reserved-memory node so that we could use memory-region for both regions.

The memory-region is just used to describe 'real' memory.  The RPM message is IO
memory and part of the SOC.  Thats my take at least.

> 
> > +		compatible = "qcom,smem";
> > +
> > +		memory-region = <&smem_region>;
> > +		reg = <0xfc428000 0x4000>;
> > +
> > +		hwlocks = <&tcsr_mutex 3>;
> > +	};

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