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

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Wed May 24 09:29:21 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 24/05/17 10:14, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> 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

I know, but you commented on my initial post a few weeks ago (suggesting
to keep the DT update in one patch) and are a valuable and knowledgeable
resource anyway ;-)

Cheers,
Andre.

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


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