[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] sunxi: Enable usb ports on the Sinovoip BPI M3

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Sat Apr 9 13:59:01 CEST 2016


Hi,

On 05-04-16 12:44, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 11:51 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05-04-16 11:44, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 21:10 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>
>>>> DLDO3 is used to provide Port-D power and PD is used for the
>>>> usb-hub / sata-5v enable pins. The 2.5V comes from the schematic
>>>> and matches the factory image fex file.
>>> Is the dts update being sync'd from the kernel?
>> Erm, no actually, the A83t USB support for the kernel is not entirely
>> ready, so we've some very minimal nodes in u-boot's a83t.dtsi for
>> now,
>> which will get replaced with the real deal when we sync in the
>> future.
>>
>> The only thing u-boot cares about are controller base address and
>> the compatible string, and there is no discussion about those,
>> which is why I merged ChenYu's .dtsi patches with the minimal nodes,
>> this commit just enables these nodes in the M3 dts.
>
> Ah, ok. Is it worth mentioning that in the commit log for clarity
> (think of someone doing a resync with the kernel and getting confused
> by the non-kernel bits)?

Ack, I've added the following paragraph to the commit msg now:

"The dts changes are the minimal changes needed for u-boot to
pick-up the usb host controllers. The upstream kernel does not
(yet) have usb host support."

Regards,

Hans


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