Re: [PATCH 00/12] Add minimal support for Exynos850 SoC

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 30/07/2021 21:02, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 20:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 30/07/2021 17:18, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 30/07/2021 16:49, Sam Protsenko wrote:
>>>> This patch series adds initial platform support for Samsung Exynos850
>>>> SoC [1]. With this patchset it's possible to run the kernel with BusyBox
>>>> rootfs as a RAM disk. More advanced platform support (like MMC driver
>>>> additions) will be added later. The idea is to keep the first submission
>>>> minimal to ease the review, and then build up on top of that.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/exynos/products/mobileprocessor/exynos-850/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Great work!
>>>
> 
> Thanks, Krzysztof! And thank you for reviewing the whole series.
> 
>>> What's the SoC revision number (should be accessible via
>>> /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/)? Recent wrap in numbering of Exynos chips
>>> might bring confusion...
> 
> # cat /sys/devices/soc0/revision
> 0

soc_id but you're right it won't be set for unknown SoCs. You need to
extend drivers/soc/samsung/exynos-chipid.c to parse new values (E3830000
for product ID) and maybe new register offsets (previous offset is 0x0,
for 3830 is 0x10 I think). Also revision mask might change.

>> Judging by vendor's sources it is quite confusing. It looks mostly like
>> Exynos3830 but in few other cases it uses Exynos9 compatibles (Exynos9,
>> Exynos9820). Only in few places there is Exynos850. Marketing department
>> made it so confusing...  The revision embedded in SoC would be very
>> interesting.
>>
> 
> As I understand, this SoC is called Exynos850 everywhere now.
> Exynos3830 is its old name, not used anymore. As you noticed from
> patch #2, it shares some definitions with Exynos9 SoC, so I guess some
> software is similar for both architectures. Not sure about hardware
> though, never worked with Exynos9 CPUs. Anyway, I asked Samsung
> representatives about naming, and it seems like we should stick to
> "Exynos850" name, even in code.


Since the chip identifies itself as E3830000, I would prefer naming
matching real product ID instead of what is pushed by marketing or sales
representatives. The marketing names don't have to follow any
engineering rules, they can be changed and renamed. Sales follows rather
money and corporate rules, not consistency for upstream project.


Best regards,
Krzysztof