Re: [PATCH 05/11] dt-bindings: mips: cpu: Add I-Class I6500 Multiprocessor Core

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023, at 16:51, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 06:10:32PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>> The MIPS Warrior I-class I6500 was announced by Imagination
>>> Technologies in 2016 and is used in the Mobileye SoC EyeQ5.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
>>> index cf382dea3922..87fd2842ba68 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/cpus.yaml
>>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ properties:
>>>        - mti,mips24KEc
>>>        - mti,mips14KEc
>>>        - mti,mips14Kc
>>
>>> +      - mti,i6500
>>
>> Since the CPU core vendor is Imagination Technologies thus it would
>> be more appropriate to have the "img," prefix. Wouldn't it?
>
> According to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
>
> "^mti,.*":
>     description: Imagination Technologies Ltd. (formerly MIPS
>     Technologies Inc.)
>
> So I think it's OK.

I don't see any good solution, they changed their name and
ownership too many times. I would actually revert back the
description here to "MIPS Technologies Inc" instead of trying
to keep track of what they currently call themselves.

Since we already have both the 'mips,' and 'mti,' vendow
names for the 14Kc, 14KEc and 24KEc parts, maybe we can
just go back to 'mips,' for all cores past the mti era
rather than trying to date and geolocate each of the
classic cores as one of 'mti', 'img', 'wavecomp', 'tallwood',
'mips' 'cipunited' etc.

   Arnd