Re: [PATCH] ARM: dt: sun8i-h3: Add sunxi-sid to dts for sun8i-h3

[Maxime Ripard]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 09:40:16AM +0200, LABBE Corentin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> > On Wed,  5 Oct 2016 11:48:24 +0200
> > Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch add support for the sunxi-sid driver to the device tree for sun8i-h3.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi | 5 +++++
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi
> > > index 9f58bb4..abfd29c 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3.dtsi
> > > @@ -211,6 +211,11 @@
> > >  			#size-cells = <0>;
> > >  		};
> > >  
> > > +		sid: eeprom@01c14200 {
> > > +			compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-sid";
> > > +			reg = <0x01c14200 0x200>;
> > 
> > The datasheet says 1Kb starting at 0x01c14000.
> > Is there any reason to reduce the area and to shift the offset?
> > 
> 
> According to http://linux-sunxi.org/SID_Register_Guide "For
> Allwinner A83T and H3 the SID address space starts at 0x01c14000,
> and the e-fuses are at offset 0x200".
>
> So I use this offset, since the sunxi_sid driver need the base
> address of e-fuses.
> 
> The easiest solution is to use 0x01c14200 since the other part of
> sid is not used and not known (A83T/H3 user manual doesnt give any
> information on all sid space, worse for A64 which reference SID only
> in memory map).
> 
> So probably for H3/A64/A83T, there will never any usage of the rest
> of the SID address space.

And since we can't know that, and we have to maintain the DT ABI,
using the whole address map and an offset, with a new compatible, is
definetely the safest thing to do.

Maxime

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