[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 8/8] armv8: ls1046a: setup SEC ICIDs and fix up device tree

Horia Geanta horia.geanta at nxp.com
Mon Jul 30 14:33:22 UTC 2018


On 7/30/2018 4:58 PM, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
>> The only way to implement a *mechanism* is to provide different ICIDs for all
>> the blocks.
>> Any other solution would be imposing a *policy*, thus restricting user's
>> possibilities. Admittedly there are use cases less "popular" than others, but if
>> possible it would be best not to decide for the user and provide full flexibility.
>>
>> Is there a resource (ICID values) shortage?
>>
> No. I can change the patch to have distinct ICIDs and resubmit. Please 
> let me know if you agree on this.
> 
Yes, this is my suggestion.
IIUC it's also similar to the way LIODNs are allocated on PPC.
True, LS102x is the exception - it assigns ICID 0x10 to all SEC blocks.

Regards,
Horia


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