On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Suman,

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Does this mean you allow nodes not to have the base_id property? How
do we protect against multiple nodes not having a base_id property
then?

Implicitly assuming a base_id value (zero in this case) may not be always safe.

Hi Ohad,

I still have a huge problem understanding the awesomeness with the
"base_id". If you have a SoC with 2 hwlock blocks; say 8+8 locks, used
for interaction with e.g. a modem and a video core respectively.
Why would you in either remote system offset the locks with 8?
Wouldn't e.g the modem use locks hwlock0:0-7 and video core use locks
hwlock1:0-7?

What systems use more than one hwlock block and do you know of any
reasons why these hwlocks are globally numbered?

Regards,
Bjorn