Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] dt-bindings: thermal: sun8i: Add A523 THS0/1 controllers

From: Rob Herring

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 11:24:42 EST


On Sun, Sep 13, 2026 at 10:55:23PM +0800, Mikhail Kalashnikov wrote:
> From: Mikhail Kalashnikov <iuncuim@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add dt-bindings description of the thermal sensors in the A523 processor.
>
> The calibration data for both thermal controllers (THS0, THS1) is split
> across two nvmem cells at different offsets, requiring the two cells
> to be read and merged. To maintain backward compatibility, the name of
> the old cell remains "calibration" and the new cell is named
> "calibration-second-part".
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kalashnikov <iuncuim@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml | 34 +++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml
> index 3e61689f6..792081af5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/allwinner,sun8i-a83t-ths.yaml
> @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ properties:
> - allwinner,sun50i-h5-ths
> - allwinner,sun50i-h6-ths
> - allwinner,sun50i-h616-ths
> + - allwinner,sun55i-a523-ths0
> + - allwinner,sun55i-a523-ths1

Why the 2 compatibles? What's the difference between them?

Surely this has been asked already, but nothing *in this patch* answers
it.

Rob