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Message-ID: <20231006164019.GA4040344-robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2023 11:40:19 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Phil Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@...aro.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@...el.com>,
        Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik.bayouk@...ileye.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] dt-bindings: mips: cpu: Add I-Class I6500
 Multiprocessor Core

On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 12:48:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023, at 16:51, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 06:10:32PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >>> The MIPS Warrior I-class I6500 was announced by Imagination
> >>> Technologies in 2016 and is used in the Mobileye SoC EyeQ5.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml | 1 +
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>> 
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
> >>> index cf382dea3922..87fd2842ba68 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
> >>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ properties:
> >>>        - mti,mips24KEc
> >>>        - mti,mips14KEc
> >>>        - mti,mips14Kc
> >>
> >>> +      - mti,i6500
> >>
> >> Since the CPU core vendor is Imagination Technologies thus it would
> >> be more appropriate to have the "img," prefix. Wouldn't it?
> >
> > According to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> >
> > "^mti,.*":
> >     description: Imagination Technologies Ltd. (formerly MIPS
> >     Technologies Inc.)
> >
> > So I think it's OK.
> 
> I don't see any good solution, they changed their name and
> ownership too many times. I would actually revert back the
> description here to "MIPS Technologies Inc" instead of trying
> to keep track of what they currently call themselves.
> 
> Since we already have both the 'mips,' and 'mti,' vendow
> names for the 14Kc, 14KEc and 24KEc parts, maybe we can
> just go back to 'mips,' for all cores past the mti era
> rather than trying to date and geolocate each of the
> classic cores as one of 'mti', 'img', 'wavecomp', 'tallwood',
> 'mips' 'cipunited' etc.

I would reserve 'mips' for anything common. Much like 'riscv' is only 
for things based on RiscV specs/standards.

I would use 'img' here if we know this was designed/implemented by 
Imagination.

Rob

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