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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 1/6] Documentation: add dts binding for X-Gene reboot dts node.
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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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