Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:35:33 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] Documentation: add dts binding for X-Gene reboot dts node. | From | Feng Kan <> |
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Feng Kan wrote: >> >> > >> > Is this related to the standard ARM SCU that manages multiprocessor >> > systems, or a different unit that uses the same name? >> >> FKAN: You mean the snoop control unit in ARM. This is different from >> that, the main function of this unit is clk control. > > Hmm, if it's *mainly* used for clocks, you may actually just want to > have a driver in drivers/clk for it that also performs a few of the > other things on the side. >
FKAN: there among other thing, reset controls, fuse id's and deep sleep resume registers... I like your idea of using syscon, we can have a node for SCU and then the specific driver to parse out the needed chunk to use.
> Arnd
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