Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: allwinner: h6: add the basical Allwinner H6 DTSI file

From: Samuel Holland
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 10:54:12 EST


On 02/26/18 03:26, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:22:06PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>>>> + psci {
>>>> + compatible = "arm,psci-0.2";
>>>> + method = "smc";
>>>> + };
>>>
>>> Is it needed? The bootloader should fill it with whatever version it
>>> has, shouldn't it?
>>
>> But we now use ATF rather than U-Boot PSCI. U-Boot will not fill ATF
>> info.
>>
>> See A64/H5 device trees.
>
> So if the PSCI version implemented in ATF ever changes, we would have
> to update all the DT everywhere, but only if you're running the new
> version?

Yes but no. PSCI 1.0 is generally backward compatible with PSCI 0.2. In fact,
the Linux driver treats them exactly the same:

{ .compatible = "arm,psci-0.2", .data = psci_0_2_init},
{ .compatible = "arm,psci-1.0", .data = psci_0_2_init},

For the H6, however, the oldest ATF source available (which I believe was the
one in use during bringup) is based on mainline 1.4, and is already at PSCI
version 1.1:

[ 0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
[ 0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[ 0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs
[ 0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.

So we could go ahead and bump the compatible to "arm,psci-1.0".

Thanks,
Samuel