Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 03/11] irqchip/sifive-plic: Add missing thead,c900-plic match string

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2022-02-20 09:54, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > [ Upstream commit 1d4df649cbb4b26d19bea38ecff4b65b10a1bbca ]
> >
> > The thead,c900-plic has been used in opensbi to distinguish
> > PLIC [1]. Although PLICs have the same behaviors in Linux,
> > they are different hardware with some custom initializing in
> > firmware(opensbi).
> >
> > Qute opensbi patch commit-msg by Samuel:
> >
> >   The T-HEAD PLIC implementation requires setting a delegation bit
> >   to allow access from S-mode. Now that the T-HEAD PLIC has its own
> >   compatible string, set this bit automatically from the PLIC driver,
> >   instead of reaching into the PLIC's MMIO space from another driver.
> >
> > [1]: 
> > https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/commit/78c2b19218bd62653b9fb31623a42ced45f38ea6
>
> The "thead,c900-plic" string is added into single place in the
> kernel. This means that a) it will probably not do anything useful in
> -stable kernels and b) it is certainly missing documentation etc.
>
> In mainline, string is documented in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/sifive,plic-1.0.0.yaml

(b) is certainly true. And to make the above comment useful, the missing
patch is 321a8be37e1a ("dt-bindings: update riscv plic compatible
string").

Regarding (a), the DT is provided by the firmware (as it should
be on any reasonable platform). As such, no need for this string to be
mentioned anywhere else but in the documentation.

Now, the real question is where there is any point in backporting
this to such an old kernel, as this HW is unlikely to ever run it.

        M.
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