Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] soc: amlogic: add new meson-gx-socinfo-sm driver

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Thu Mar 14 2024 - 10:30:38 EST


On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 03:25:02PM +0300, Viacheslav wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 14/03/2024 13.40, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 09:59:50AM +0300, Viacheslav Bocharov wrote:
> > > The Amlogic Meson SoC Secure Monitor implements a call to retrieve an
> > > unique SoC ID starting from the GX Family and all new families.
> > > But GX-family chips (e.g. GXB, GXL and newer) supports also 128-bit
> > > chip ID. 128-bit chip ID consists 32-bit SoC version and 96-bit OTP data.
> > >
> >
> > How old or new are these SoCs ? The reason I ask is that it is really
> > sad to see vendors still creating their custom interfaces for such things
> > despite the standard SMCCC interface SOC_ID introduced in SMCCC v1.2 some
> > time in 2020.
>
> Most of these SoC were created before 2020.
>

Fair enough then. Hope they use SOC_ID on newer SoCs.

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Regards,
Sudeep