Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] clk: bcm: Add BCM63268 timer clock and reset driver

Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2023-03-22T17:18:31Z

El mié, 22 mar 2023 a las 0:23, Stephen Boyd (<sboyd@kernel.org>) escribió:
>
> Quoting Florian Fainelli (2023-03-21 16:09:54)
> > On 3/21/23 16:06, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Quoting Florian Fainelli (2023-03-21 16:00:29)
> > >>
> > >> These SoCs are big-endian, require native endian register access and
> > >> have no posted writes within their bus logic (UBUS) and require no
> > >> barriers, hence the use of __raw_readl() and __raw_writel() is adequate.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Use ioread32be() then?
> >
> > BCM63xx drivers tend to use __raw_{read,write}l for consistency and to
> > make it clear that no barriers, no endian swapping is necessary, I would
> > prefer to remain consistent with that convention.
>
> Ok.
>
> Is the clk device big-endian? Or the CPU is big-endian? SoC being
> big-endian sounds like the devices in the SoC are big-endian. I hope we
> never plop this device down with a CPU that's litle-endian.

The SoC is big-endian. I've only worked with MIPS big-endian devices
from Broadcom, so I'm not really sure, but this seems to be very
BCM63268-specific...
Other BCM63xx devices I know have separate clock and reset
controllers, but not this kind of timer, clock and reset controller...

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Álvaro