[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 8/9] arm: dts: add ethernet node to Meson gxbb

[Beniamino Galvani]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 12:09:33PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Add a node for the Synopsys Designware Ethernet adapter available on
> > Meson SoCs to the Meson GXBaby DTS files. The node is not present in
> > DTS files used in Linux kernel.
>
> ... but why is this not yet in the kernel device tree?  Has it just not
> made it up from the SoC tree?

Because kernel doesn't have yet an Ethernet driver for Meson GXBaby to
set the platform-specific registers needed to program the MII mode,
clocks and other things (the settings that are in patch 9/9 of this
submission). And without documentation it's hard to write one and get
it right.

So this patch adds a new uboot-only node to the DTS for Ethernet. This
doesn't seem problematic to me WRT synchronization with kernel DTS
because no new bindings or driver changes are needed; and whenever the
same node will be added to kernel we'll only have to update it in
u-boot.

If it is not acceptable to have a DTS different to kernel one, I'll
have to find a different solution, any suggestions? Should I use
U_BOOT_DEVICE and platform_data inside the board file instead?

Maybe I will submit v3 of the series without Ethernet while I figure
out this.

Beniamino