[U-Boot] [PATCHv4 3/3] ARM64: poplar: hi3798cv200: u-boot support for Poplar 96Boards

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri May 12 12:35:07 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:16:52AM +0200, Jorge Ramirez wrote:
> On 05/12/2017 12:32 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>ummmm I am a bit lost at this point, could we recap please?
> >Sure.
> >
> >>let's see: I need to use the pl01x uart on an aarch64 platform and I
> >>dont need to enable any clocks for uboot in my SoC. Not now,
> >>unlikely ever.
> >>
> >>Doing what other boards have done to this date is no longer
> >>acceptable (ie platform data for the pl01x or using uboots "clock"
> >>property embedded in the hacked device trees)
> >The only thing we all agree on right now is that "clock" is wrong and
> >must be replaced.  I've decided we need to discuss bringing in platform
> >data for pl01x.  Once we resolve this, then you can re-spin the series
> >(and hopefully have the USB nodes be submitted to Linux too, since
> >they're the standard ones and, uh, should just enable USB on your board
> >in the kernel too..)  Thanks!
> 
> cool, that sounds great, thanks.
> 
> yeah the usb nodes should be ready pretty soon, I have seen them
> circulating already.
> 
> btw, what was it that triggered our discussion?  it is not like any
> of the dts files for armv8 boards are verbatim copies of what you
> find in the kernel.

They've gotten out of sync? Sigh..  I suppose this starts to push me
from the "keep them in the kernel" camp to "push them to a separate
authoritative repository" camp.

I do know some of the early boards were out of sync, but that shouldn't
be the case moving forward, and isn't the case for ARMv7 things.

-- 
Tom
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