Hi Arnd,
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Some Renesas SoCs may exist in different revisions, providing slightly
>> different functionalities (e.g. R-Car H3 ES1.x and ES2.0), and behavior
>> (errate and quirks). This needs to be catered for by drivers and/or
>> platform code. The recently proposed soc_device_match() API seems like
>> a good fit to handle this.
>>
>> This patch series implements the core infrastructure to provide SoC and
>> revision information through the SoC bus for Renesas ARM SoCs. It
>> consists of 7 patches:
>> - Patches 1-4 provide soc_device_match(), with some related fixes,
>> - Patches 5-7 implement identification of Renesas SoCs and
>> registration with the SoC bus,
>>
>> Changes compared to v1:
>> - Add Acked-by,
>> - New patches:
>> - "[4/7] base: soc: Provide a dummy implementation of
>> soc_device_match()",
>> - "[5/7] ARM: shmobile: Document DT bindings for CCCR and PRR",
>> - "[6/7] arm64: dts: r8a7795: Add device node for PRR"
>> (more similar patches available, I'm not yet spamming you all
>> with them),
>> - Drop SoC families and family names; use fixed "Renesas" instead,
>> - Drop EMEV2, which doesn't have a chip ID register, and doesn't share
>> devices with other SoCs,
>> - Drop RZ/A1H and R-CAR M1A, which don't have chip ID registers (for
>> M1A: not accessible from the ARM core?),
>> - On arm, move "select SOC_BUS" from ARCH_RENESAS to Kconfig symbols
>> for SoCs that provide a chip ID register,
>> - Build renesas-soc only if SOC_BUS is enabled,
>> - Use "renesas,prr" and "renesas,cccr" device nodes in DT if
>> available, else fall back to hardcoded addresses for compatibility
>> with existing DTBs,
>> - Remove verification of product IDs; just print the ID instead,
>> - Don't register the SoC bus if the chip ID register is missing,
>> - Change R-Mobile APE6 fallback to use PRR instead of CCCR (it has
>> both).
>>
>> Merge strategy:
>> - In theory, patches 1-4 should go through Greg's driver core tree.
>> But it's a hard dependency for all users.
>> If people agree, I can provide an immutable branch in my
>> renesas-drivers repository, to be merged by all interested parties.
>> So far I'm aware of Freescale/NXP, and Renesas.
>
> And Samsung.
> Shall I create the immutable branch now?
Arnd: are you happy with the new patches and changes?
Thanks again!
>> - Patches 5-7 obviously have to go through Simon's Renesas tree (after
>> merging the soc_device_match() core), and arm-soc.
>>
>> Tested on (machine, soc_id, optional revision):
>> EMEV2 KZM9D Board, emev2
>> Genmai, r7s72100
>> APE6EVM, r8a73a4, ES1.0
>> armadillo 800 eva, r8a7740, ES2.0
>> bockw, r8a7778
>> marzen, r8a7779, ES1.0
>> Lager, r8a7790, ES1.0
>> Koelsch, r8a7791, ES1.0
>> Porter, r8a7791, ES3.0
>> Blanche, r8a7792, ES1.1
>> Gose, r8a7793, ES1.0
>> Alt, r8a7794, ES1.0
>> Renesas Salvator-X board based on r8a7795, r8a7795, ES1.0
>> Renesas Salvator-X board based on r8a7795, r8a7795, ES1.1
>> Renesas Salvator-X board based on r8a7796, r8a7796, ES1.0
>> KZM-A9-GT, sh73a0, ES2.0
>>
>> For your convenience, this series (incl. more DT updates to add device
>> nodes for CCCR and PRR to all other Renesas ARM SoCs) is also available
>> in the topic/renesas-soc-id-v2 branch of my renesas-drivers git
>> repository at
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git
>> Its first user is support for R-Car H3 ES2.0 in branch
>> topic/r8a7795-es2-v1-rebased2.
>>
>> Thanks for your comments!
>>
>> Arnd Bergmann (1):
>> base: soc: Introduce soc_device_match() interface
>>
>> Geert Uytterhoeven (6):
>> base: soc: Early register bus when needed
>> base: soc: Check for NULL SoC device attributes
>> base: soc: Provide a dummy implementation of soc_device_match()
>> ARM: shmobile: Document DT bindings for CCCR and PRR
>> arm64: dts: r8a7795: Add device node for PRR
>> soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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