Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] arm64: dts: cix: add initial CIX P1(SKY1) dts support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025, at 10:31, Peter Chen wrote:
> On 25-03-27 09:18:42, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Agreed. The usual arrangement for a new SoC family is to have
>> the minimum set of drivers (uart, clk, pinctrl, regulator,
>> iommu, irqchip) along with the DT bindings and the dts files
>> in one branch and have that go through the SoC tree as part of
>> the soc/newsoc branch. It sounds like in this case we only need
>> uart and a mailbox since the rest are shared with existing
>> firmware based drivers, so this isn't even the worst case
>> but still requires some coordination between subsystem maintainers
>> to ensure that all patches have been properly reviewed before
>> I merge them.
>
> So, in this case, we should add mailbox driver support in this
> series, and once the mailbox maintainer has reviewed mailbox
> driver, all the patches could go your tree?

Yes, exactly. Just make sure you describe this in the submission
for the mailbox driver to make sure everyone understands the
plan. I don't think we've had a mailbox driver as the critical
path for a new platform before, so they would usually go through
the mailbox subsystem tree.

     Arnd