Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: meson: fix g12a buses

From: Jerome Brunet
Date: Thu Jan 17 2019 - 15:39:11 EST


On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 21:27 +0100, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> OK, but we had incorrect documentation in the past. did you check this
> with someone from Amlogic?
>
> I'm curious because there seem to be two different approaches here:
> 1) hiubus name and offsets are being fixed within this patch
> 2) aobus is being dropped here and re-introduced with a different name later
> on
>

because hiu exist and aobus does not, for which both the name and size was
wrong

> approach 1) can also be used for the "rti" region (at least in my
> opinion, the patch doesn't explain why it can't be done):

THe patch remove aobus (instead of fixing name and size) because, of the
multiple region documented covered by this 'made region', I did not anticipate
which one will be required and I did not want to add them all.

Better to add them as needed, which is want I done for pinctrl as you pointed
out

> rename "aobus" to "rti" and change the size to either 0x1000 or 0xb000
> (both values can be found in mesong12a.dtsi from
> buildroot_openlinux_kernel_4.9_fbdev_20180706)

RTI is added here:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117103151.3349-1-jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I don't really understand the problem ? result is the same