Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: introduce no-auto-mmio property for syscons

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:33:48PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 08:27:05PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Generally, syscons are created automatically and accessed direclty via
> > MMIO however sometimes syscons might only be accessible from the secure
> > partition or through SCMI etc.  Introduce the no-auto-mmio property to
> > tell the operating system that the syscon needs to be handled manually.
> 
> "System controller node represents a register region containing a set
> of miscellaneous registers."
> 
> If this isn't actually a register region, but is instead an interface
> provided by SCMI or whatever "secure partition" is (optee?), why is the
> syscon compatible being used for the device in the first place?

In the case that I'm looking at, it really is a syscon.  So right now
we're upstreaming it and it's an MMIO syscon.  Very straight forward.
But later, I guess, they want to have a new firmware which will only let
you access the same registers through SCMI.

regards,
dan carpenter