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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:44:59 +0200
From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
To: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>, f.fainelli@...il.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] reset: Add Raspberry Pi 4 firmware reset
controller
On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 12:02 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 19:13 +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > Raspberry Pi 4's co-processor controls some of the board's HW
> > initialization process, but it's up to Linux to trigger it when
> > relevant. Introduce a reset controller capable of interfacing with
> > RPi4's co-processor that models these firmware initialization routines as
> > reset lines.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@...e.de>
> > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
Thanks!
> If there is a good reason for the single DT specified reset id, I can
> pick up patches 1 and 2.
The idea here is to make sure we're reasonably covered against further changes
in firmware. If we define constraints too narrow it can be a pain to support
new features without breaking backwards compatibility in dt.
> If you change the dts patch 4 to use a number instead of the reset id
> define for now, there wouldn't even be a dependency between these reset
> and dts patches.
I was under the impression that having an explicit definition was nice to have.
What's troubling about creating the dependency?
Regards,
Nicolas
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