linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for Actions Semi Owl socinfo

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Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 10:54:38 +0530
From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
To:     Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@...il.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-actions@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add support for Actions Semi Owl socinfo

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:48:15PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> This patchset adds a socinfo driver which provides information about
> Actions Semi Owl SoCs to user space via sysfs: machine, family, soc_id,
> serial_number.
> 
> Please note the serial number is currently available only for the S500
> SoC variant.
> 
> This has been tested on the S500 SoC based RoseapplePi SBC.
> 

Is this the soc_id provided by the vendor bootloader (uboot)? If so, under
what basis it provides? I don't think the SoC has the provision for
soc_id based on HW parameters.

Thanks,
Mani

> Thanks,
> Cristi
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Exposed the memory range for reading the SoC serial number under
>    /reserved-memory DT node, according to Rob's review; as a consequence
>    added a new binding document (actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml) and updated
>    owl-socinfo.yaml
> 
>  - Replaced the unportable usage of system_serial_{low,high} globals
>    with a public API to provide external access to SoC serial number
>    parts (e.g. Owl Ethernet MAC driver will use this to generate a
>    stable MAC address)
> 
>  - Rebased patch series on v5.12-rc5
> 
> Cristian Ciocaltea (6):
>   dt-bindings: reserved-memory: Add Owl SoC serial number binding
>   dt-bindings: soc: actions: Add Actions Semi Owl socinfo binding
>   soc: actions: Add Actions Semi Owl socinfo driver
>   arm: dts: owl-s500: Add reserved-memory range for Owl SoC serial
>     number
>   arm: dts: owl-s500: Add socinfo support
>   MAINTAINERS: Add entries for Owl reserved-memory and socinfo bindings
> 
>  .../actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml               |  53 ++++++
>  .../bindings/soc/actions/owl-socinfo.yaml     |  57 +++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   2 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/owl-s500.dtsi               |  13 +-
>  drivers/soc/actions/Kconfig                   |   8 +
>  drivers/soc/actions/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/actions/owl-socinfo.c             | 152 ++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/soc/actions/owl-serial-number.h |  20 +++
>  8 files changed, 305 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/actions,owl-soc-serial.yaml
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/soc/actions/owl-socinfo.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/actions/owl-socinfo.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/actions/owl-serial-number.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>