Re: [PATCH 02/11] devicetree: bindings: Document Qualcomm cpus andenable-method

[Stephen Boyd]

On 11/05/13 09:43, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
>> On 11/05/13 09:12, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> I think this should be more specific than just 'qcom,mmio' or 'qcom,warm-boot'.  It should be 'qcom,kpss-acc-v1' or 'qcom-gcc-8660'.
>>>
>> Do you have any reasons why? I don't see why we need to keep adding more
>> and more enable-methods every time the subsystem surrounding the CPU
>> changes. The method is the same, write some registers to power up the
>> CPU for the first time (cold boot) or ping the CPU to wake it up
>> (warmboot). The only difference is where those registers live and a
>> slight variation in the sequence that we perform.
> By that argument every device could just be compatible with 'mmio' and be done with it ;)
>
> As the registers you write vary, the compatible should vary.

The compatible does vary. The enable-method is not a compatible property.

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