Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2014 23:54:11 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 01/11] ARM: amba: Add Qualcomm vendor ID. | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote: > On 05/16/14 09:24, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote: >> >>> Please add a note that this id is fake in the commit text or in >>> the code as well. >> You just need one of your hardware engineers to add is to one instance >> of some test chip round so it exists in any hardware whatsoever and it >> is not "fake" anymore... >> >> This is a bit like device tree, it's defined by the kernel community as much >> as by the hardware engineers and it's a little bit of back-and-forth. >> > > Sure, but hardware teams have moved on from this IP so I doubt we can > even get them to put it into a test chip. In fact, the devices a > generation before the ones Srini is working on (msm8660 for example) > have a periph ID of 0x41180 so we need to override that ID in DT with > this fake ID for things to even work.
Hehe I wasn't really suggesting doing that.
The point was to illustrate how fragile the border between "real" and "fake" is in these cases.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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