Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] s32g: Use a syscon for GPR

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

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 10:56:49AM -0500, Frank Li wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 05:41:43PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The s32g devices have a GPR register region which holds a number of
> > miscellaneous registers.  Currently only the stmmac/dwmac-s32.c uses
> > anything from there and we just add a line to the device tree to
> > access that GMAC_0_CTRL_STS register:
> >
> >                         reg = <0x4033c000 0x2000>, /* gmac IP */
> >                               <0x4007c004 0x4>;    /* GMAC_0_CTRL_STS */
> >
> > We still have to maintain backwards compatibility to this format,
> > of course, but it would be better to access these through a syscon.
> > First of all, putting all the registers together is more organized
> > and shows how the hardware actually is implemented.  Secondly, in
> > some versions of this chipset those registers can only be accessed
> > via SCMI, if the registers aren't grouped together each driver will
> > have to create a whole lot of if then statements to access it via
> > IOMEM or via SCMI,
> 
> Does SCMI work as regmap? syscon look likes simple, but missed abstract
> in overall.
> 

The SCMI part of this is pretty complicated and needs discussion.  It
might be that it requires a vendor extension.  Right now, the out of
tree code uses a nvmem vendor extension but that probably won't get
merged upstream.

But in theory, it's fairly simple, you can write a regmap driver and
register it as a syscon and everything that was accessing nxp,phy-sel
accesses the same register but over SCMI.

> You still use regmap by use MMIO. /* GMAC_0_CTRL_STS */
> 
> regmap = devm_regmap_init_mmio(dev, sts_offset, &regmap_config);
> 

You can use have an MMIO syscon, or you can create a custom driver
and register it as a syscon using of_syscon_register_regmap().

> So all code can use regmap function without if-then statements if SCMI work
> as regmap.
> 

regards,
dan carpenter