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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:50:15 +0100
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add cache information to the
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On 2024-02-28 11:42, Dragan Simic wrote:
> On 2024-02-27 15:58, Dragan Simic wrote:
>> On 2024-02-27 13:49, Anand Moon wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 at 00:39, Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-02-26 19:23, Anand Moon wrote:
>>>> > As per RK3568 Datasheet and TRM add missing cache information to
>>>> > the Rockchip RK3566 and RK3568 SoC.
>>>> >
>>>> > - Each Cortex-A55 core has 32KB of L1 instruction cache available and
>>>> >       32KB of L1 data cache available with ECC.
>>>> > - Along with 512KB Unified L3 cache with ECC.
>>>> >
>>>> > With adding instruction cache and data cache and a write buffer to
>>>> > reduce the effect of main memory bandwidth and latency on data
>>>> > access performance.
>>>> >
>>>> > Signed-off-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
>>>> 
>>>> I was about to send my own patch that adds the same missing cache
>>>> information, so please allow me to describe the proposed way to move
>>>> forward.
>>>> 
>>>> The way I see it, your commit summary and description need a rather
>>>> complete rewrite, to be more readable, more accurate, and to avoid
>>>> including an irrelevant (and slightly misleading) description of the
>>>> general role of caches.
>>>> 
>>>> Also, the changes to the dtsi file would benefit from small 
>>>> touch-ups
>>>> here and there, for improved consistency, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> With all that in mind, I propose that you withdraw your patch and 
>>>> let
>>>> me send my patch that will addresses all these issues, of course 
>>>> with
>>>> a proper tag that lists you as a co-developer.  I think that would
>>>> save us a fair amount of time going back and forth.
>>>> 
>>>> I hope you agree.
>>> 
>>> I have no issue with this,.If you have a better version plz share 
>>> this.
>> 
>> Thank you, I'll send my patch within the next couple of days.
> 
> Here's a brief update...  Basically, not all of the cache-size values
> found in your patch were correct, but I've got all of them calculated
> again, double-checked, and cross-compared with the way values in my
> earlier patch for the RK3399 SoC dtsi were calculated. [2]
> 
> It all checked out just fine.  It's all based on the RK3566 and RK3568
> SoC datasheets and a couple of ARM specifications, which I'll describe
> in detail in my patch description.  I'll send the patch after I test
> it a bit, to make sure it all works as expected.
> 
> [1] 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=b72633ba5cfa932405832de25d0f0a11716903b4

Pretty much the same patch for the RK3328 is also ready for testing.