Re: [PATCH 01/11] devicetree: bindings: Document cpu enable-method for ARM CPUs

From: Tomasz Figa
Date: Fri Nov 08 2013 - 04:12:38 EST


On Friday 01 of November 2013 15:08:49 Stephen Boyd wrote:
> From: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> According to the ePAPR CPUs should have an enable method. On ARM
> the enable-method property has not been used so far, so document
> this property as an optional property and add the spin-table
> method as one value
>
> Cc: <devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [sboyd: Split off into separate patch]
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt index f32494d..37258f9
> 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt
> @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ For the ARM architecture every CPU node must contain
> the following properties: "marvell,xsc3"
> "marvell,xscale"
>
> +And the following optional properties:
> +
> +- enable-method: Specifies the method used to enable or take the
> secondary cores + out of reset. This allows different reset
sequence
> for
> + different types of cpus.
> + This should be one of:
> + "spin-table"

What about saying a word or two (other than property value) about each
method?

Best regards,
Tomasz

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