Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for Actions Semi Owl socinfo

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Hi,

On 01.04.21 12:27, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:40:41PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:54:38AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:48:15PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>>>> This patchset adds a socinfo driver which provides information about
>>>> Actions Semi Owl SoCs to user space via sysfs: machine, family, soc_id,
>>>> serial_number.
>>>>
>>>> Please note the serial number is currently available only for the S500
>>>> SoC variant.
>>>>
>>>> This has been tested on the S500 SoC based RoseapplePi SBC.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is this the soc_id provided by the vendor bootloader (uboot)? If so, under
>>> what basis it provides? I don't think the SoC has the provision for
>>> soc_id based on HW parameters.
>>
>> No, the soc_id is not provided by the bootloader, or at least I couldn't
>> identify any related implementation. Instead, I provided this via the
>> driver itself, since I've encountered this approach in some other soc
>> drivers as well (e.g. imx/soc-imx.c, versatile/soc-integrator.c). 
>>
> 
> Sorry, I was referring to serial_number. Since your comment says so, can
> you point to the corresponding code?

Seconded that this needs to be better understood. If this is just a
convention of some downstream U-Boot that's not implemented in mainline
(and maybe not even for Guitar or Labrador? tested on RoseapplePi only),
it might not be worth its own reserved-memory based kernel driver?

Implementing a standard interface such as DMI tables or a DT property in
mainline U-Boot may be more useful then. Is it still Mani's S900 only?

Regards,
Andreas

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