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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/4] dt-bindings: mips: brcm: Document brcm,bmips-cbr-reg property
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On 5/8/24 10:17, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 06:14:34PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
>> On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
>>> Document brcm,bmips-cbr-reg property.
>>>
>>> Some SoC suffer from a BUG where read_c0_brcm_cbr() might return 0
>>> if called from TP1. The CBR address is always the same on the SoC
>>> hence it can be provided in DT to handle broken case where bootloader
>>> doesn't init it or SMP where read_c0_brcm_cbr() returns 0 from TP1.
>>>
>>> Usage of this property is to give an address also in these broken
>>> configuration/bootloader.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml
>>> index 975945ca2888..77f73ab48c11 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mips/brcm/soc.yaml
>>> @@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ properties:
>>> under the "cpus" node.
>>> $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
>>>
>>> + brcm,bmips-cbr-reg:
>>> + description: Reference address of the CBR.
>>
>> Pretty sure that Rob commented last time that there's no definition
>> anywhere here of CBR, but I don't see either a response to him or an
>> explanation in v3 as to what CBR means.
>>
>
> Sorry I missed it.

FWIW, CBR mean Core Base Register. It is accessed via co-processor 0,
register 22, selector 6 using the MIPS processor's way of adding custom
co-processor registers.
--
Florian

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