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From: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] of: Add binding document for MIPS GIC
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:08:10 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 12:12 AM, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>>
>> +- reg : Base address and length of the GIC registers.
>>
>
> Also except for sead3, the base address should be properly reported by the
> hardware. The size is fixed (for a specific version of GIC at least - which
> is also reported by the hardware). So it would be nice to make this
> optional.

Even though this is usually probable, I'd prefer to leave this as
required, or at least "optional, but recommended".  I don't have a
very strong opinion on it though, but perhaps the device-tree folks
do?