Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] dt-bindings: Intorduce domain-controller

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Jul 26 2022 - 03:46:19 EST


On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:32 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:25:08AM +0000, Oleksii Moisieiev wrote:
> > Introducing the domain controller provider/consumenr bindngs which allow to
> > divided system on chip into multiple domains that can be used to select
> > by who hardware blocks could be accessed.
> > A domain could be a cluster of CPUs, a group of hardware blocks or the
> > set of devices, passed-through to the Guest in the virtualized systems.
>
> 'domain' is entirely to ambiguous. We have clock domains, power domains,
> interrupt domains, etc. already. This needs to be specific about what is
> controlled/provided.

Good point.

This should be something like bus-domain, as it controls what the bus
can access.

Yours,
Linus Walleij