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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] soc: loongson: add GUTS driver for loongson-2
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From:   Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
        Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@loongson.cn>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
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        Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>,
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Date:   Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:00:26 +0800
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On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 21:57 +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Hi, Yinbo,
>=20
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 10:48 AM Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@loongson.cn>
> wrote:
> >=20
> > The global utilities block controls PCIE device enabling, alternate
> > function selection for multiplexed signals, consistency of HDA, USB
> > and PCIE, configuration of memory controller, rtc controller, lio
> > controller, and clock control.
> >=20
> > This patch adds a driver to manage and access global utilities block
> > for loongarch architecture Loongson-2 SoCs. Initially only reading
> > SVR
> Replace loongarch with LoongArch.
>=20
> > and registering soc device are supported. Other guts accesses, such
> > as reading PMON configuration by default, should eventually be added
> > into this driver as well.
> Replace PMON with BIOS is better.

Or just "firmware"?  I remember Xuerui (or another guy?) has said
"nobody should use the term BIOS for non-x86 platforms in 2022".

--=20
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University