[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/19] sunxi: sync H3, H5, A64 DTs from mainline Linux

Jagan Teki jagan at amarulasolutions.com
Tue Apr 3 17:14:41 UTC 2018


Hi Andre,

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> A minor update to the v3 version sent earlier this month.
> I reworked patch 09 to drop the direct MMC environment for 32-bit Allwinner
> boards as well and keep the current MMC offset.
> For now I also dropped the two patches changing (back) the MMC regulator.
> I still believe they are good to have and keep them as U-Boot specific
> .dtsi files in my tree, possibly posting them later again.
>
> As the previous version, this combines the EMAC DT support update with
> an update of the full Linux kernel DTs for all H3, H5 and A64 boards.
>
> Patch 01 leaves some hint in the README how to avoid the situation
> when overrunning U-Boot's image size on 64-bit boards.
> The old v2 EMAC DT update series is in patches 02-08, it prepares U-Boot's
> EMAC driver for using the new DT binding used in Linux, also updates
> the DTs to the new EMAC DT node already.
>
> Changes to sync the whole of U-Boot's DT files for the H3, H5 and A64 SoCs
> to those from Linux are in the following patches. However this first requires
> lifting the space limit we currently have due to the raw MMC environment.
> Patch 09 disables that for all sunxi boards, to give us finally some
> space. Patches 10 and 11 consequently revert the disabling of features we
> saw a few weeks ago to migitate the size problem.
>
> Patches 12-19 then bring in the Linux DTs, split by SoCs, with the .dtsi
> files first, then the board files.
>
> Merging the H3 and H5 device tree files brings in significant changes,
> also to the structure of the .dtsi files. However U-Boot's own DT usage
> is pretty limited, so it doesn't matter.
>
> The huge benefit of syncing the DTs is that we can use U-Boot's DT copy
> to directly pass it to the kernel, avoiding to actually load a .dtb file
> from somewhere. To allows seamless and automatic UEFI booting, so
> distribution installer images should just work (TM).
>
> As a goodie the final patch brings in the actual SoPine + baseboard DT
> files, which we were completely missing so far.
>
> This is based on sunxi/master (2d53018a0ef2).
>
> Cheers,
> Andre.
>
> Changelog v3 .. v4:
> - remove MMC environment for all Allwinner boards (including 32 bit ones)
> - keep MMC environment offset to the old values
> - drop DT adjustments to use fixed MMC regulator
>
> Changelog v2 .. v3:
> 01: added, was on the list before
> 02: drop redundant H5 line
> 03-08: unchanged
> 09-20: added
>
> Changelog v1 .. v2:
> 01, 02, 03: unchanged
> 04, 05, 06, 07: added
>
> Andre Przywara (19):
>   sunxi: README.sunxi64: Add hint about non-debug of ARM Trusted
>     Firmware
>   sunxi: gpio: add missing compatible strings
>   net: sun8i-emac: support new pinctrl DT bindings
>   net: sun8i-emac: add support for new EMAC DT binding
>   arm: dts: sunxi: update A64 to new EMAC binding
>   arm: dts: sunxi: update H3 to new EMAC binding
>   arm: dts: sunxi: update H5 to new EMAC binding
>   net: sun8i-emac: remove support for old binding
>   sunxi: disable direct MMC environment
>   sunxi: revert disabling of features
>   Revert "sunxi: Pine64: temporarily remove extra Pine64 non-plus DT"

Can you rebase and fix few checkpatch issue on these 11 patches?

Jagan.

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Jagan Teki
Senior Linux Kernel Engineer | Amarula Solutions
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.


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