Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] clk: bcm: Add BCM63268 timer clock and reset driver

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Tue Mar 21 2023 - 19:23:59 EST


Quoting Florian Fainelli (2023-03-21 16:09:54)
> On 3/21/23 16:06, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting Florian Fainelli (2023-03-21 16:00:29)
> >>
> >> These SoCs are big-endian, require native endian register access and
> >> have no posted writes within their bus logic (UBUS) and require no
> >> barriers, hence the use of __raw_readl() and __raw_writel() is adequate.
> >>
> >
> > Use ioread32be() then?
>
> BCM63xx drivers tend to use __raw_{read,write}l for consistency and to
> make it clear that no barriers, no endian swapping is necessary, I would
> prefer to remain consistent with that convention.

Ok.

Is the clk device big-endian? Or the CPU is big-endian? SoC being
big-endian sounds like the devices in the SoC are big-endian. I hope we
never plop this device down with a CPU that's litle-endian.