On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:17:32PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:07 PM Mark Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:01:06PM +0000, John Garry wrote: > > > On 13/01/2020 11:42, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > The idiomatic approach appears to be for individual board vendors > > > > to allocate IDs, you do end up with multiple IDs from multiple > > > > vendors for the same thing. > > > But I am not sure how appropriate that same approach would be for some 3rd > > > party memory part which we're simply wiring up on our board. Maybe it is. > > It seems to be quite common for Intel reference designs to assign > > Intel IDs to non-Intel parts on the board (which is where I > > became aware of this practice). > Basically vendor of component in question is responsible for ID, but > it seems they simple don't care. AFAICT a lot of the time it seems to be that whoever is writing the software ends up assigning an ID, that may not be the silicon vendor.