linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] DT/arm,gic-v3: Update the ITS size in the examples

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Message-ID: <f0281d22-38b7-91db-17e8-115f22456d3c@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:03:56 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@...aro.org>
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, jason@...edaemon.net, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DT/arm,gic-v3: Update the ITS size in the examples

On 03/10/17 15:53, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:20:27PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> Currently, the examples are using 2MB for the ITS size. Per the
>> specification (section 8.18 in ARM IHI 0069D), the ITS address map is
>> 128KB.
>>
>> Update the examples to match the specification.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@...aro.org>
> 
> This looks sane to me, per my reading of that section of the spec.
> 
> Marc, was there some reason we used such a large size? Or was the extra
> zero unintentional?

It is just that counting zeroes is hard. I usually just type a bunch of
them and let careful people sort it out. ;-)

I'll apply that as a fix.

Thanks,

	M.
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