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From: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, lst@pengutronix.de, ukl@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Add new feature controller framework
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 09:32:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220830073248.GF24324@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220818051955.2088238-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

Hi Ahmad,

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 07:19:45AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The i.MX8MM exists in a Lite variant with no VPUs as well as Solo and
> Dual variants with one or two cores respectively instead of the default
> four. For i.MX6, we had a manual fixup taking care of deleting the
> excess CPUs, but for e.g. the i.MX8MP, we have fuses for the M7, VPUs, CAN,
> CAN-FD, ISPs, NPU, ... etc. Describing all that in the DT is overly verbose
> as we need to take care not to rely on specific device node names that
> should be disabled. There has been an upstream attempt to get a binding
> for U-Boot to act on:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220324042024.26813-1-peng.fan@oss.nxp.com/
> 
> This was refused by the DT maintainer, because any solution to this
> problem should also be flexible enough to cover the case of partitioning
> devices between the secure and normal world.
> 
> There's a patch series upstream to describe a domain-controller binding
> that allows a hypervisor to partition devices into domains. With the
> naming generalized, this fits nicely the use case of gating devices
> behind specific features:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/3ca7cd75-4b62-2380-adb0-646bbeb647a2@pengutronix.de/
> 
> This series does that. See the first two commit messages for details.
> We use a barebox, prefix as the naming isn't set in stone, but the intention
> is to drop the prefix and potentially rename once an upstream binding is
> approved.

I am fine with this series. Is this still the way you want to have it
merged or do you have an update?

Sascha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-30  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-18  5:19 Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] driver: add " Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] driver: consult feature controller prior to device probe Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  8:19   ` Philipp Zabel
2022-08-18  8:34     ` Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] driver: featctrl: fixup kernel device tree Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] dt-bindings: add i.MX8M feature controller bindings Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] soc: imx: add i.MX8M feature controller driver Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] nvmem: import Linux nvmem_cell_read_variable_le_u32 Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] nvmem: ocotp: add i.MX8M[MN] feature controller support Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] ARM: dts: i.MX8MN: describe feature controller Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] RFC: soc: imx: imx8m-featctrl: add i.MX8M[MN] stand-alone driver Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-18  5:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] RFC: ARM: dts: i.MX8MM: describe standlone feature controller Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-30  7:32 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2022-08-30  7:38   ` [PATCH 00/10] Add new feature controller framework Ahmad Fatoum
2022-08-31  6:06     ` Sascha Hauer

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