Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] dt-bindings: mailbox: mediatek: Add GCE header file for MT8196

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On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 13:23 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
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> On 12/12/2024 12:24, Jason-JH Lin (林睿祥) wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:22:49AM +0800, Jason-JH.Lin wrote:
> > > > > > Add the Global Command Engine (GCE) header file to define
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > GCE
> > > > > > thread priority, GCE subsys ID and GCE events for MT8196.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This we see from the diff. What we do not see is why priority
> > > > > is
> > > > > a
> > > > > binding. Looking briefly at existing code: it is not a
> > > > > binding,
> > > > > there
> > > > > is
> > > > > no driver user.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This priority value is used to configure the priority level for
> > > > each
> > > > GCE hardware thread, so it is a necessary hardware attribute.
> > > 
> > > I did not say these are not "hardware". I said these are not
> > > bindings.
> > > Bring arguments why these are bindings.
> > > 
> > 
> > Not only bringing arguments, we use it to configure each GCE
> > thread's
> > priority.
> > 
> > Please forgive me to ask a trivial question.
> > Do you mean if there is no driver using it directly, then it can
> > not be
> > a binding?
> 
> Here:
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Your reply in this example is really clear:
Register values are not bindings, they do not bind anything. Bindings
are imaginary numbers starting from 0 or 1 which are used between
drivers and DTS, serving as abstraction layer (or abstraction values)
between these two.

Now I can understand what the binding should be. Thank you very much.


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