[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] Enable test case with A20-OLinuXino-Lime2

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at bootlin.com
Thu Feb 8 09:06:09 UTC 2018


Hi,

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 08:24:37AM +0200, Stefan Mavrodiev wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 07:19 PM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:55:54PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > > > > > > +&spi0 {
> > > > > > > > +       pinctrl-names = "default";
> > > > > > > > +       pinctrl-0 = <&spi0_pins_b>, <&spi0_cs0_pins_b>;
> > > > > > > > +       status = "okay";
> > > > > > > > +
> > > > > > > > +       flash: w25q128 at 0 {
> > > > > > > Was it sync from Linux?
> > > > > > No, this isn't in the linux dts.
> > > > > But we have to, please send it to Linux first.
> > > > We've already commented this issue. In the v2 [1], I've explained that this
> > > > won't go mainline, since it's optional feature. Rather it will be managed
> > > > with overlays.
> > > Thought this was already in ML, and ready to merge. So this never go
> > > to Linux tree since it's optional? then add u-boot.dtsi for this
> > > atleast since we always sync dts from Linux.
> > This is an optional feature on that board. We should be making it as
> > easy as possible to enable it, but a defconfig is a *default*
> > configuration, and if the board doesn't have it by default, it
> > shouldn't be enabled in the defconfig.
> >
>
> Sorry, but I'm really confused. In the first patch Jagan said to
> make separate patch "just to test" the driver. Then I've made patch
> "just to test", and it's turn out it wasn't not OK, because it
> should be compatible with linux, u-boot and etc. What's the point
> since it's just for testing...?

Sorry if we're not on the same page, that patch definitely looks good
as a demonstration on how it could be used. Thanks for doing it, it
makes things clearer :)

> Sorry again, but can someone explain to me, that to do?
> I'm not trying to pick on you guys. Just want to do the right thing.

I guess we need to sync with Jagan on this.

Let's do it in the rest of the discussion.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com
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