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

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 10:17:05PM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> 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 you're just not submitting the binding for the kernel at this point?
If so, yes, sticking with pdata is probably better since when we've been
in this situation before the bindings were actively being worked on the
kernel side as well and we just resynced when things were finalized.

-- 
Tom
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