From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed.mediouni@caramail.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Stan Skowronek <stan@corellium.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] irqchip/apple-aic: Add support for Apple AIC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:45:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL_JsqJL8kgUwP0SA5TZDoBqqTh=eYRgG1=bymS9t=rEHr-HWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3k7p3YK5DY3gTm0UaAgse41J7h_e-dN_NAjThPFE0tyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:38 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:48 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mohamed,
> >
> > thanks for your patch!
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:31 PM Mohamed Mediouni
> > <mohamed.mediouni@caramail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +properties:
> > > + compatible:
> > > + items:
> > > + - const: apple,aic
> >
> > However weird it may seem, Apple is not in the file
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> >
> > (I think it's weird because I remember clearly that they have been
> > using device tree for PPC since ages.)
> >
> > Could you add this 2-liner to that file and send it directly to
> > DT binding maintainers as a single patch as a preparation?
>
> Choosing the vendor prefix here is going to be a little tricky
> and non-obvious.
>
> Background:
>
> Traditionally, it should have been the stock ticker symbol of the
> company (clearly only publicly traded companies would be able
> to produce a Unix capable computer, right?), but there were
> already inconsistent: IBM used "ibm" (in small letters), Sun
> used "SUNW" (in capitals) but in 2007 changed the stock ticker
> symbol to "JAVA", obviously without changing the firmware bindings.
>
> Apple traditionally used "AAPL" (also in caps) in the device tree,
> and there is one remnant of that in the M1 device tree, in the form
> of the "AAPL,phandle" property in each node, which corresponds
> to our "linux,phandle". (phandles were introduced as properties in
> both of the flattened DT formats, .dtb and apple's own format).
> There are also "AAPL,unit-string properties and some device_type
> strings (AAPL,display-crossbar, AAPL,atc-dpxbar, ...) in the M1 DT,
> and the CPU nodes (and only those) use "apple" in small letters
> as in "apple,icestorm","ARM,v8". The other nodes tend to not have
> a vendor prefix, but a lot use a subsystem name as the prefix, such
> as compatible="gpio,t8101" or compatible="tempsensor,t8020".
>
> Since Apple are already using both the "AAPL" and the "apple"
> prefix themselves, I have a bad feeling about reusing either of
> them for defining the devicetree.org bindings that we add to
> linux/Documentation/devicetree/bindings. The question is: if
> not "apple", what else should we use here?
IMO, 'AAPL' as that is what is already in use in the kernel. I don't
see why it matters at all what Apple is using. It might if we used any
of the ADT as-is, but I don't see that happening from what I've seen.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 13:27 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Linux on Apple Silicon Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] arm64: kernel: FIQ support Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] arm64: kernel: Add a WFI hook Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 16:46 ` Alexander Graf
[not found] ` <94C20F55-D3B8-4349-B26F-9EA8AAEBF639@caramail.com>
2021-01-21 12:33 ` Hector Martin 'marcan'
2021-01-21 10:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 11:01 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 11:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] arm64: mm: use nGnRnE instead of nGnRE on Apple processors Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 16:47 ` Alexander Graf
2021-01-20 18:06 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 18:10 ` Alexander Graf
2021-01-21 11:27 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-21 11:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 11:44 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 12:47 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-21 15:12 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 16:25 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 17:55 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-21 18:15 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 18:22 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 18:22 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] irqchip/apple-aic: Add support for Apple AIC Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 17:11 ` Alexander Graf
2021-01-20 18:04 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 20:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-20 21:18 ` Stan Skowronek
2021-01-21 9:48 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-21 10:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 15:29 ` Hector Martin 'marcan'
2021-01-21 17:09 ` Rob Herring
2021-01-21 17:45 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2021-01-21 16:44 ` Rob Herring
2021-01-21 16:53 ` Hector Martin 'marcan'
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] arm64/Kconfig: Add Apple Silicon SoC platform Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] arm64: kernel: Apple CPU start driver Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 11:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-20 13:27 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] irqchip/apple-aic: add SMP support to the Apple AIC driver Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 12:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 12:50 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 13:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 13:01 ` Hector Martin 'marcan'
2021-01-21 13:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 13:32 ` Mark Rutland
2021-01-21 14:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 13:34 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 14:10 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-21 15:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-21 15:18 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 16:40 ` Rob Herring
2021-01-21 16:43 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 17:37 ` Rob Herring
2021-01-21 18:08 ` Mohamed Mediouni
2021-01-21 18:57 ` Rob Herring
2021-02-02 19:15 ` Linus Walleij
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