Re: [PATCHv8 15/21] iommu/tegra124: smmu: add support platform data

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On 05/30/2014 10:39 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> 
> Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 05/30/2014 05:20 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
>>> The later Tegra SoC(>= T124) has more registers for
>>> MC_SMMU_TRANSLATION_ENABLE_*. Now those info is provided as platfrom
>>> data. If those varies a lot on SoCs in the future, we can consider
>>> putting them into DT later.
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/nvidia,tegra30-smmu.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iommu/nvidia,tegra30-smmu.txt
>>
>>>  Required properties:
>>> -- compatible : "nvidia,tegra30-smmu"
>>> -- reg : Should contain 3 register banks(address and length) for each
>>> +- compatible : "nvidia,tegra124-smmu", "nvidia,tegra30-smmu"
>>> +- reg : Can contain multiple register banks(address and length) for each
>>>    of the SMMU register blocks.
>>
>> How many is "multiple"? This seems like rather a weak definition of how
>> many entries are expected. What are the different register banks?
> 
> SMMU registers are part of MC registers. SMMU registeres are interleaved
> by MC(non-SMMU) registeres, most likely it's about ~10 banks.
> 
> We concluded to not have SMMU as a child of MC since their features are
> so independent long time ago. This interleaved register locations are
> not so good. I requested H/W team to have them completely separated, but
> itt was too late to change.

The point of my comment was that the DT binding documentation needs to
explicitly state exactly what entries are required.
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