Re: [PATCH v3 05/14] dt-bindings: fsi: Document the IBM SBEFIFO engine

From: Eddie James
Date: Fri Apr 26 2024 - 11:12:15 EST



On 4/26/24 01:20, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
On 25/04/2024 23:36, Eddie James wrote:
The SBEFIFO engine provides an interface to the POWER processor
Self Boot Engine (SBE).

Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

+description:
+ The SBEFIFO is an FSI CFAM engine that provides an interface to the
+ POWER processor Self Boot Engine (SBE). This node will always be a child
+ of an FSI CFAM node; see fsi.txt for details on FSI slave and CFAM
+ nodes.
+
+properties:
+ compatible:
+ enum:
+ - ibm,p9-sbefifo
+ - ibm,odyssey-sbefifo
+
+ reg:
+ items:
+ - description: FSI slave address
+
+ "#address-cells":
+ const: 1
+
+ "#size-cells":
+ const: 0
+
+patternProperties:
+ "^occ(@.*)?":
Why unit address is optional?


In this case, it's because we use the reg property (reflecting the unit address) to indicate the processor index of the occ node. However I think I should drop the unit address here, it's meaningless, there is no addressing for the OCC from the SBEFIFO.





Best regards,
Krzysztof