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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/11] dt-bindings: timer: Add Sophgo sg2042 CLINT timer
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>>>> If so, whether we should replace the "thead,c900-clint" with these separate
>>>> DT to describe the thead clint?
>>>
>>> No, since that's a different device, right?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. It seems sophgo defined these by themselves, but the T-HEAD. Sorry
>> for my mistake.
>
>I'm sorry, I don't quite understand this. Do you mean that the IP is not
>T-Head, but rather designed by Sophgo? If the IP is made by T-Head, then
>I would expect to see something like
>
>compatible = "sophgo,sg2042-aclint-mtimer", "thead,c900-aclint-mtimer";
>
>in the dts.
>

AFAIK, the clint IP is designed by T-HEAD, not Sophgo. Sophgo change this
IP layout to fit its weird cpu design. But in my test, the timer and mswi
of clint is compatible with the T-HEAD one. So we should treat this as
T-HEAD IP, not Sophgo?