On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 06:42:23PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 01:55:04PM +0800, Cunyuan Liu wrote:
> > Add "armchina" vendor prefix for Arm Technology (China) Co., Ltd.
> 
> Is this not a subsidiary of arm, that should just use the arm prefix?

It is more complicated than that. For what the kernel is interested in
they should be treated as a separate entity as their products do not
carry automatic compatibility with arm's ones.

Best regards,
Liviu

> 
> > 
> > Link: https://www.armchina.com/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cunyuan Liu <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml 
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > index ee7fd3cfe203..c7ca7f43925b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml
> > @@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ patternProperties:
> >      description: ARM Ltd.
> >    "^armadeus,.*":
> >      description: ARMadeus Systems SARL
> > +  "^armchina,.*":
> > +    description: Arm Technology (China) Co., Ltd.
> >    "^armsom,.*":
> >      description: ArmSoM Technology Co., Ltd.
> >    "^arrow,.*":
> > -- 
> > 2.53.0
> > 



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