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Date:   Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:31:41 +1030
From:   "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@aj.id.au>
To:     "Chia-Wei, Wang" <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>,
        "Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        "Lee Jones" <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
        "Joel Stanley" <joel@jms.id.au>,
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        linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc:     BMC-SW@aspeedtech.com, "Haiyue Wang" <haiyue.wang@linux.intel.com>,
        "Cyril Bur" <cyrilbur@gmail.com>,
        "Robert Lippert" <rlippert@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] ARM: dts: Remove LPC BMC and Host partitions
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, at 23:46, Chia-Wei, Wang wrote:
> The LPC controller has no concept of the BMC and the Host partitions.
> 
> A concrete instance is that the HICRB[5:4] are for the I/O port address
> configurtaion of KCS channel 1/2. However, the KCS driver cannot access
> HICRB for channel 1/2 initialization via syscon regmap interface due to
> the parition boundary. (i.e. offset 80h)
> 
> In addition, for the HW design backward compatibility, a newly added HW
> control bit could be located at any reserved one over the LPC addressing
> space. Thereby, this patch removes the lpc-bmc and lpc-host child node
> and thus the LPC partitioning.
> 
> Note that this change requires the synchronization between device tree
> change and the driver change. To prevent the misuse of old devicetrees
> with new drivers, or vice versa, the v2 compatible strings are adopted
> for the LPC device as listed:
> 
> 	"aspeed,ast2400-lpc-v2"
> 	"aspeed,ast2500-lpc-v2"
> 	"aspeed,ast2600-lpc-v2"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chia-Wei, Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>