Re: [PATCH 09/14] dt-bindings: arm: Document Renesas R-Car M3-N-based ULCB board

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Hello Engeniu,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 03:48:44PM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> Hi again Jacopo,
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 12:40:02AM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> > Hi Jacopo,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments. Please, find my replies below.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 10:15:43AM +0200, jacopo mondi wrote:
> > > Helle Eugeniu,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 01:11:09AM +0200, Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> > > > In harmony with ATF and U-Boot outputs [1] and [2], the new board is
> > > > based on M3-N revision ES1.1 and the amount of memory present on SiP
> > > > is 2GiB, contiguously addressed.
> > >
> > > Not sure why the amount of installed system memory is relevant for
> > > this commit..
> >
> > To be honest, I don't know precisely what's encoded in the board string
> > (particularly the one documented in this commit RTP0RC77965SKBX010SA00).
> >
> > The only thing unmistakenly present there is the SoC model 77965 (i.e.
> > M3-N), but I am quite clueless about the rest.
> >
> > What I can say for sure is that the end-user experience of a R-Car Gen3
> > reference board clearly depends on below parameters:
> >  - [A] SoC (model, revision) including SRAM and on-chip peripherals
> >  - [B] DRAM (amount, linear/2ch/4ch split)
> >  - [C] Hyperflash (amount)
> >  - [D] board's PCB (revision)
> >  - [E] board's off-chip peripherals (model, revision)
> >
> > I don't know how many of these parameters are embedded in the board
> > string, but since you are suggesting that RAM amount is not (IOW
> > Renesas will potentially release several RTP0RC77965SKBX010SA00
> > boards with different amounts of memory), I will happily update
> > the commit description.
>
> Since I found two H3-ES2.0 Starter Kit samples with different amount of
> RAM (4 vs 8 GiB) each having a unique board id [1], I take this as
> evidence that Renesas encodes the amount of RAM in the board id.
> Therefore, I will not change the description of this patch in v2,
> unless you comment/NAK. Thank you.
>

Thanks for digging into this, feel free to ignore my comment.


> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10555957/#22169325
>
> Best regards,
> Eugeniu.

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