Re: [PATCH 06/19] arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: Fix CPU node "enable-method" property dependencies

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM Stephan Gerhold
<stephan.gerhold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 09:59:27PM -0500, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > The "qcom,acc" and "qcom,saw" properties aren't valid with "spin-table"
> > enable-method nor are they used on 64-bit kernels, so they can be
> > dropped.
> >
>
> The bootloader we currently use on these devices reads these properties
> to set up the spin-table, so removing these will break booting secondary
> CPU cores.
>
> The motivation for implementing it that way was that 32-bit vs 64-bit
> kernel shouldn't be relevant for the describing the hardware blocks in
> the device tree. The code in the bootloader is generic and handles
> different SoCs (e.g. msm8916 with 4 cores and msm8939 with 8 cores, the
> enable sequences are identical).
>
> Can we keep this in somehow? To be fair, I'm not sure what property we
> could match on to check if these properties are allowed ...

Yes, we can keep them. We'll have to allow them with "spin-table" and
"psci" I guess.

Rob





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