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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/14] arm64: dts: sparx5: Add basic cpu support
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Robin Murphy writes:

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> On 2020-05-15 16:09, Lars Povlsen wrote:
> [...]
>>>> + cpu0: cpu@0 {
>>>> + compatible = "arm,cortex-a53", "arm,armv8";
>
> Side note: only one compatible string for the real CPU please, running a
> DT bindings check should complain about that.
>

I'll change this.

>>>> + device_type = "cpu";
>>>> + reg = <0x0 0x0>;
>>>> + enable-method = "spin-table";
>>>
>>> Really? This is 2020, not 2012 any more. Surely a new platform
>>> boots using PSCI, and not *this*.
>>>
>>
>> We don't currently support PSCI. The platform does not have TrustZone,
>> hence we don't use ATF.
> AIUI, part of the purpose of ATF is to provide a nice standardised
> platform interface regardless of whether you care about Secure software
> or not. It shouldn't take much to knock up a trivial ATF port that just
> uses an internal spin-table for its PSCI backend - in fact I suspect
> that's probably just a copy-paste from the RPi3 port ;)
>

I'll change this to PSCI if that's whats expected these days. We
actually already have an ATF port. I fully understand the desire to
standardize on PSCI.

> Robin.

--
Lars Povlsen,
Microchip

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