Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dt-bindings: sifive: add cache-set value of 2048

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On 26/07/2022 18:35, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 26/07/2022 19:07, Conor Dooley wrote:
>> From: Atul Khare <atulkhare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Fixes Running device tree schema validation error messages like
>> '... cache-sets:0:0: 1024 was expected'.
>>
>> The existing bindings had a single enumerated value of 1024, which
>> trips up the dt-schema checks. The ISA permits any arbitrary power
>> of two for the cache-sets value, but we decided to add the single
>> additional value of 2048 because we couldn't spot an obvious way
>> to express the constraint in the schema.
> 
> There is no way to express "power of two" but enum for multiple values
> would work. Is there a reason to limit only to 2048?

Copy pasting from the cover:
> I don't think that there's value in speculatively adding values to this
> enum especially as (I think at least) the scala for this cache IP has
> been released publicly:
> https://github.com/sifive/block-inclusivecache-sifive/blob/master/design/craft/inclusivecache/src/Parameters.scala#L32
> 
> The two compatibles in the file match only against two specific cache
> implemenations: the fu540's & the fu740's. I would seem to me that, it
> would be better to lock this to a single value per compatible since the
> 1024 applies to the fu540 & the new value of 2048 applies only to the
> fu740.
> 
> I have not made that change, I simply wanted to repackage this series
> in a way that could be more easily applied & restart the discussion.

TL;DR: I would limit it to 1024 & 2048 to match the only implementations
although not in the way this patch did it.

Hope that helps,
Conor.




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