Re: [RFC PATCH 8/9] pinctrl: sunxi: a523-r: add a733-r compatible string

[Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>]

Hi Andre,

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> wrote:
>
> The secondary Allwinner A733 pincontroller ("-r") is interestingly not
> using the same new MMIO frame layout as the main controller, but is in
> fact very similar to the A523-r one: it has two banks, with 14 and 6 pins
> each. From the driver's perspective, this is all we care about, so we can
> re-use the a523-r pinctrl driver for the a733-r, too.
>
> The individual pinmux settings are different, so we must not use the
> a523-r compatible string as a fallback, but we can surely let the same
> driver care for both the a523-r and a733-r IP, as the pinmux values will
> be provided by the DT.

If the bank and pin counts are the same and the pinmux values are
provided by the DT, that means they _are_ compatible, right?

Thanks,

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