Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] arm64: dts: exynos: Pull for v5.4

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 08:32, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 23:07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:36 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately the patches were applied right after closing the linux-next.
> >
> > Hi Krzysztof,
> >
> > I took a look at these and am not convinced this is right:
> >
> > > 1. Fix boot of Exynos7 due to wrong address/size of memory node,
> >
> > The current state is clearly broken and a fix is needed, but
> > I'm not sure this is the right fix. Why do you have 32-bit physical
> > addressing on a 64-bit chip? I looked at commit ef72171b3621
> > that introduced it, and it seems it would be better to just
> > revert back to 64-bit addresses.
>
> We discussed with Marek Szyprowski that either we can go back to
> 64-bit addressing or stick to 32. There are not known boards with more
> than 4 GB of RAM so from this point of view the choice was irrelevant.
> At the end of discussion I mentioned to stick with other arm64 boards
> (although not all), so revert to have 64 bit address... but Marek
> chosen differently. Since you ask, let's go back with revert.
>
> >
> > > 2. Move GPU under /soc node,
> >
> > No problem
> >
> > > 3. Minor cleanup of #address-cells.
> >
> > IIRC, an interrupt-controller is required to have a #address-cells
> > property, even if that is normally zero. I don't remember the
> > details, but the gic binding lists it as mandatory, and I think
> > the PCI interrupt-map relies on it. I would just drop this patch.
>
> Indeed, binding requires both address and size cells. I'll drop it.

Short update: no, address-cells are not required by bindings. They are
optional. In case of lack of them, the parent address-cells will be
used so effectively this patch was changing it from 0 to 1. Anyway
this was not expressed in commit msg so I'll drop it.

Best regards,
Krzysztof