[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/2] sunxi: update Pine64 device tree

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Wed May 24 09:14:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 23/05/17 23:26, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Hi Andre,
>>
>> Am 23.05.2017 um 12:09 schrieb Andre Przywara:
>>> an updated version: the first patch is unchanged (still the exact
>>> same DT as in Linux), but the second patch reformats the Ethernet nodes
>>> as a .dtsi and uses the new U-Boot specific DT addon feature to make
>>> it clear that these nodes are for a (preliminary) U-Boot specific binding.
>>> Once the Ethernet driver made it into Linux, we will either adapt the
>>> U-Boot driver to cope with the new binding or get a new (Designware based)
>>> driver anyway. In any case this -u-boot.dtsi can then just be removed.
>>
>> Could we squash the two? Or add the .dtsi first? That would keep the
>> series bisectable.
>
> Yeah, now with that separate file for the Ethernet node squashing the
> two patches into one would be the easiest.
>
> Chen-Yu, Maxime, are you OK with this? I can send a new version then.

You're asking the wrong person. I'm not a maintainer for U-boot. :p

Andreas' point is valid. Keeping it in one patch means the user retains
ethernet support across the changes.

ChenYu


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