On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Simon Horman
<horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add fallback compatibility strings for R-Car Gen 1 and 2.
>
> In the case of Renesas R-Car hardware we know that there are generations of
> SoCs, f.e. Gen 1 and 2. But beyond that its not clear what the relationship
it's
> between IP blocks might be. For example, I believe that r8a7790 is older
> than r8a7791 but that doesn't imply that the latter is a descendant of the
> former or vice versa.
>
> We can, however, by examining the documentation and behaviour of the
> hardware at run-time observe that the current driver implementation appears
> to be compatible with the IP blocks on SoCs within a given generation.
>
> For the above reasons and convenience when enabling new SoCs a
> per-generation fallback compatibility string scheme being adopted for
is being adopted?
> drivers for Renesas SoCs.
>
> Note that R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G1 have many compatible IP blocks. The
> approach that has been consistently taken for other IP blocks is to name
> common code, compatibility strings and so on after Rcar Gen2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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