Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: add SMP enable-method for Broadcom NSP

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Dec 03 2015 - 16:26:41 EST


On 02/12/15 08:06, Kapil Hali wrote:
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,nsp-cpu-method.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
>>> +Broadcom Northstar Plus SoC CPU Enable Method
>>> +---------------------------------------------
>>> +This binding defines the enable method used for starting secondary
>>> +CPUs in the following Broadcom SoCs:
>>> + BCM58522, BCM58525, BCM58535, BCM58622, BCM58623, BCM58625, BCM88312
>>> +
>>> +The enable method is specified by defining the following required
>>> +properties in the "cpus" device tree node:
>>> + - enable-method = "brcm,bcm-nsp-smp";
>>> + - secondary-boot-reg = <...>;
>>
>> Both of these are supposed to be per cpu core.
>
> 'enable-method' if not found in 'cpu' node is looked at in the 'cpus'
> node. Except for two-three SoC families, 'enable-method' is within
> 'cpus' node. Is my interpretation incorrect? Did I miss anything here?

So, what do we do from here? I would appreciate a timely answer from the
DT maintainers here so we can decide on the fate of this patch series
for 4.5.

Thank you
--
Florian
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