Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] Documentation: add dts binding for X-Gene reboot dts node.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:35:33 Feng Kan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Feng Kan wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Is this related to the standard ARM SCU that manages multiprocessor
> >> > systems, or a different unit that uses the same name?
> >>
> >> FKAN: You mean the snoop control unit in ARM. This is different from
> >> that, the main function of this unit is clk control.
> >
> > Hmm, if it's *mainly* used for clocks, you may actually just want to
> > have a driver in drivers/clk for it that also performs a few of the
> > other things on the side.
> >
> 
> FKAN: there among other thing, reset controls, fuse id's and deep sleep
> resume registers... I like your idea of using syscon, we can have a node
> for SCU and then the specific driver to parse out the needed chunk to use.

Yes, sounds good.

	Arnd
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