linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] riscv: dts: sophgo: Separate common devices from cv1800b soc

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Message-ID: <20231014-scooter-blurred-995313b571ea@spud>
Date:   Sat, 14 Oct 2023 10:28:49 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
Cc:     Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@...look.com>,
        Chao Wei <chao.wei@...hgo.com>,
        Chen Wang <unicorn_wang@...look.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] riscv: dts: sophgo: Separate common devices from
 cv1800b soc

> Maybe this has been discussed before but I didn't find it. I'm wondering
> the reason of adding each plic and clint binding for each SoC, can we
> just use the thead,c900-plic for plic?
> FWICT, arm gic dt usage follows this way, there's no binding for each SoC's
> gic but directly use "arm,gic-v3" and so on.

I'm not aware of why the gic-v3 is done like this, but having different
compatibles allows differentiation between implementations/integrations
of this interrupt controller. I think having that ability is especially
helpful given T-Head have open-sourced a bunch of their IP.

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