Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for Actions Semi Owl socinfo

[Cristian Ciocaltea]

Hi Mani,

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:54:38AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:48:15PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> > This patchset adds a socinfo driver which provides information about
> > Actions Semi Owl SoCs to user space via sysfs: machine, family, soc_id,
> > serial_number.
> > 
> > Please note the serial number is currently available only for the S500
> > SoC variant.
> > 
> > This has been tested on the S500 SoC based RoseapplePi SBC.
> > 
> 
> Is this the soc_id provided by the vendor bootloader (uboot)? If so, under
> what basis it provides? I don't think the SoC has the provision for
> soc_id based on HW parameters.

No, the soc_id is not provided by the bootloader, or at least I couldn't
identify any related implementation. Instead, I provided this via the
driver itself, since I've encountered this approach in some other soc
drivers as well (e.g. imx/soc-imx.c, versatile/soc-integrator.c). 

Thanks,
Cristi

> Thanks,
> Mani
 
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