Re: [PATCH 4/6] dt-bindings: riscv: Add DT binding documentation for Renesas RZ/Five SoC and SMARC EVK

[Conor.Dooley]

On 27/07/2022 14:00, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe
> 
> On 27/07/2022 14:56, Biju Das wrote:
>>>
>>> Then it is not the same SoC! Same means same, identical. CPU
>>> architecture is one of the major differences, which means it is not the
>>> same.
>>
>> Family SoC(R9A07G043) is at top level. Then it has different SoCId for taking care of
>> differences for SoC based on ARMV8 and RISC-V which has separate compatible like
>> r9a07g043u11 and r9a07g043f01?
> 
> This does not answer the concern - it's not the same SoC. The most
> generic compatible denotes the most common part. I would argue that
> instruction set and architecture are the most important differences.
> None of ARMv8 SoCs (SoCs, not CPU cores) have "arm,armv8" compatible and
> you went even more - you combined two architectures in the most generic
> compatibles.

I would have to agree with this. The most "core" part of the SoC is
its architecture and while the peripheral IPs might be the same etc
& the Renesas marketing team might have put them in the same "family",
for the purposes of a device tree I don't see how having a common
fallback makes sense.

Conor.