Re: [PATCH 1/1] dt-bindings: T-HEAD CLINT

[Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>]

On 10/22/21 23:22, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> The CLINT in the T-HEAD 9xx CPUs is similar to the SiFive CLINT but does
>> not support 64bit mmio access to the MTIMER device.
>>
>> OpenSBI currently uses a property 'clint,has-no-64bit-mmio' to indicate the
>> restriction and the "sifive,cling0" compatible string. An OpenSBI
>> patch suggested to use "reg-io-width = <4>;" as the reg-io-width property
>> is generally used in the devicetree schema for such a condition.
>>
>> As the design is not SiFive based it is preferable to apply a compatible
>> string identifying T-HEAD instead.
>>
>> Add a new yaml file describing the T-HEAD CLINT.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
>> ---
>> @Palmer, @Anup
>> I copied you as maintainers from sifive,clint.yaml. Please, indicate if
>> this should be changed.
>>
>> For the prior discussion see:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015100941.17621-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com/
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015120735.27972-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com/
>>
>> A release candidate of the ACLINT specification is available at
>> https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aclint/releases
>> ---
>>   .../bindings/timer/thead,clint.yaml           | 62 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/thead,clint.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/thead,clint.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/thead,clint.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..02463fb2043a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/thead,clint.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/timer/thead,clint.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: SiFive Core Local Interruptor
>> +
>> +maintainers:
>> +  - Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
>> +  - Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>
>> +
>> +description:
>> +  T-HEAD (and other RISC-V) SOCs include an implementation of the T-HEAD
>> +  Core Local Interruptor (CLINT) for M-mode timer and M-mode inter-processor
>> +  interrupts. It directly connects to the timer and inter-processor interrupt
>> +  lines of various HARTs (or CPUs) so RISC-V per-HART (or per-CPU) local
>> +  interrupt controller is the parent interrupt controller for CLINT device.
>> +  The clock frequency of the CLINT is specified via "timebase-frequency" DT
>> +  property of "/cpus" DT node. The "timebase-frequency" DT property is
>> +  described in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
>> +
>> +properties:
>> +  compatible:
>> +    items:
>> +      - const:
>> +          - allwinner,sun20i-d1-clint
>> +      - const:
>> +          - thead,clint0
>> +
>> +    description:
>> +      Should be "<vendor>,<chip>-clint" and "thead,clint<version>" for
>> +      the T-HEAD derived CLINTs.
>> +      Supported compatible strings are -
>> +      "allwinner,sun20i-d1-clint" for the CLINT in the Allwinner D1 SoC
>> +      and "thead,clint0" for the T-HEAD IP block with no chip
>> +      integration tweaks.
> 
> T-HEAD uses the same versioning as SiFive? If you use version numbers in
> compatible strings, the numbering needs to be documented and correlate
> back to the h/w design. See [1]. IP release numbers for FPGA IP for
> example. What it should not be is the binding author making up 0, 1, 2,
> etc. versions.

The only publicly available information on the IP block is:

https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc906/blob/main/doc/%E7%8E%84%E9%93%81C906%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8C.pdf

Page 3 has a version number for the whole document. Chapter 9 does not 
have any version number for the CLINT. So should we simply call the 
block "thead,clint" without any version number?

@Guo: do you have more information accessible?

Best regards

Heinrich

> 
> Rob
> 
> [1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sifive/sifive-blocks-ip-versioning.txt
>