Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dt-bindings: gpu: add bindings for the ARM Mali Midgard GPU

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 15:27:51 EST


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:16:16PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> The ARM Mali Midgard GPU family is present in a number of SoCs
> from many different vendors such as Samsung Exynos and Rockchip.
>
> Import the device tree bindings documentation from the r16p0
> release of the Mali Midgard GPU kernel driver:
>
> https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/mali-drivers/kernel/mali-midgard-gpu/TX011-SW-99002-r16p0-00rel0.tgz
>
> Remove the copyright and GPL licence header as deemed not necessary.
>
> Redesign the "compatible" property strings to list all the Mali
> Midgard GPU types and include optional vendor ones.
>
> Drop the "clock-names" property as only one clock is used by the Mali
> Midgard driver (which now needs to call clk_get with NULL).
>
> Convert the "interrupt-names" property values to lower-case: "job",
> "mmu" and "gpu".
>
> Replace the deprecated "operating-points" optional property with
> "operating-points-v2".
>
> Omit the following optional properties in this initial version as they
> are only used in very specific cases:
>
> * snoop_enable_smc
> * snoop_disable_smc
> * jm_config
> * power_model
> * system-coherency
> * ipa-model
>
> Update the example accordingly to reflect all these changes.
>
> CC: John Reitan <john.reitan@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..547ddeceb498
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
> +ARM Mali Midgard GPU
> +====================
> +
> +Required properties:
> +
> +- compatible :
> + * Must be one of the following:
> + + "arm,mali-t60x"
> + + "arm,mali-t62x"

Don't use wildcards.

> + + "arm,mali-t720"
> + + "arm,mali-t760"
> + + "arm,mali-t820"
> + + "arm,mali-t830"
> + + "arm,mali-t860"
> + + "arm,mali-t880"
> + * And, optionally, one of the vendor specific compatible:

IMO, these should not be optional.

> + + "amlogic,meson-gxm-mali"
> + + "rockchip,rk3288-mali"