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Message-ID: <20250902134417-GYA1155728@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 21:44:17 +0800
From: Yixun Lan <dlan@...too.org>
To: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@...as.ac.cn>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
	Alex Elder <elder@...cstar.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, spacemit@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] riscv: dts: spacemit: uart: remove sec_uart1 device
 node

Hi Vivian,

On 20:55 Tue 02 Sep     , Vivian Wang wrote:
> 
> On 9/2/25 20:26, Yixun Lan wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi
> > index abde8bb07c95c5a745736a2dd6f0c0e0d7c696e4..3094f75ed13badfc3db333be2b3195c61f57fddf 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi
> > @@ -777,16 +777,7 @@ uart9: serial@...17800 {
> >  				status = "disabled";
> >  			};
> >  
> > -			sec_uart1: serial@...12000 {
> > -				compatible = "spacemit,k1-uart",
> > -					     "intel,xscale-uart";
> > -				reg = <0x0 0xf0612000 0x0 0x100>;
> > -				interrupts = <43>;
> > -				clock-frequency = <14857000>;
> > -				reg-shift = <2>;
> > -				reg-io-width = <4>;
> > -				status = "reserved"; /* for TEE usage */
> > -			};
> > +			/* sec_uart1: 0xf0612000, not available from Linux */
> 
> I know this is going back and forth a lot but I don't think that's a
> good description of what's going on.
> 
> My preference is that we just drop this node altogether, just forgetting
> that this thing even exists. But if you do think we want to keep the
yes, removing the comment and completely dropping it is an option..

> information we can drop the clock-frequency property too and change its
> status to something like:
> 
>   status = "disabled"; /* No clock defined */
> 
> Which also silences the warning - disabled nodes are allowed to be
> incomplete.
no, set to 'disabled' is simply wrong, it doesn't reflect the meaning of
"unavaiable", I remembered we've rejected this before introducing the
'sec_uart1' node in the first place

> 
> My personal opinion is that I think sec_uart1 and TEE support feels too
> theoretical to be worth caring about.
> 
> Vivian "dramforever" Wang
> 

-- 
Yixun Lan (dlan)