Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] DMA: Freescale: revise device tree bindingdocument

From: Scott Wood
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 19:34:00 EST


On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:12 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> OK, if there's some alternative run-time way of enabling chip-specific
> quirking, it's probably fine to remove the extra compatible values.
>
> Now, that does rather assume that this DMA IP block will only ever be
> used within SoCs that have that SVR concept, but perhaps if that's ever
> not the case, we can simply go back to requiring extra compatible values
> in those specific cases?

The only situation I can see where SVR would be absent is if we were to
integrate this device into an ARM chip, in which case I'd expect there
to be some equivalent way to find the SoC identification. If the driver
knows what SoC version it expects, it will know the way that that SoC
advertises its version.

-Scott



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