Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: timer: sifive,clint: add legacy riscv compatible
From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Aug 09 2022 - 10:16:41 EST
On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 05:28:43PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While "real" hardware might not use the compatible string "riscv,clint0"
> it is present in the driver & QEMU uses it for automatically generated
> virt machine dtbs. To avoid dt-validate problems with QEMU produced
> dtbs, such as the following, add it to the binding.
>
> riscv-virt.dtb: clint@2000000: compatible:0: 'sifive,clint0' is not one of ['sifive,fu540-c000-clint', 'starfive,jh7100-clint', 'canaan,k210-clint']
>
> Reported-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220803170552.GA2250266-robh@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml | 18 ++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> index e64f46339079..9fcf20942582 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/sifive,clint.yaml
> @@ -22,12 +22,18 @@ description:
>
> properties:
> compatible:
> - items:
> - - enum:
> - - sifive,fu540-c000-clint
> - - starfive,jh7100-clint
> - - canaan,k210-clint
> - - const: sifive,clint0
> + oneOf:
> + - items:
> + - enum:
> + - sifive,fu540-c000-clint
> + - starfive,jh7100-clint
> + - canaan,k210-clint
> + - const: sifive,clint0
> + - items:
> + - const: sifive,clint0
> + - const: riscv,clint0
> + deprecated: true
> + description: For legacy systems & the qemu virt machine only
I would drop 'legacy systems'.
>
> description:
> Should be "<vendor>,<chip>-clint" and "sifive,clint<version>".
> --
> 2.37.1
>
>