[U-Boot] [PATCH 09/12] ARM: kirkwood: Add device-tree for nsa310s

Chris Packham judge.packham at gmail.com
Wed May 16 08:23:13 UTC 2018


(adding back list and cc, my bad replied from a mobile device)

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:10 PM Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris,

> On 16.05.2018 09:58, Chris Packham wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > On Wed, 16 May 2018, 12:09 AM Stefan Roese, <sr at denx.de
> > <mailto:sr at denx.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Chris,
> >
> >     On 10.05.2018 02:51, Chris Packham wrote:
> >      > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 6:27 AM bodhi bodhi <mibodhi at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:mibodhi at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >> Hi Chris,
> >      >
> >      >> What we have in Linux mainline is Zyxel NSA310 (Marvell
> >     88f6281). The
> >      > Zyxel NSA310S (Marvell 88f6702) is actually a different box,
> >     which has not
> >      > been mainlined yet.
> >      >
> >      >> By the way, there are 3 variations of the Zyxel NSA310 box. This
> >     box has
> >      > some combination of: red USB Led, lm85 sensor, adt7476 sensor
> >     that make
> >      > them slighly different. The mainlined NSA310 DTS is for the one
with
> >      > adt7476 sensor.
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > Ah OK. I did see 2 boards in the kernel, this was one of the
> >     "educated
> >      > guesses" which turns out not to to be a good guess. For now I'll
> >     just drop
> >      > this conversion from the series.
> >
> >     Yes, that makes sense. Please do so. We can always get the correct
> >     version back into mainline, once we have Kirkwood "enabled" in a
> >     modern way.
> >
> >     What is your plan with this Kirkwood revival? Do you plan to send
> >     updates to enable DM for those boards and perhaps some drivers as
> >     well? How should I proceed with this DT patch-set?
> >
> >
> > I was about to ask you.
> >
> > I was thinking about sending a v2 omitting nas310s, but if that's the
> > only change you could just omit it at your end.

> So for a start its good that I apply these patches, omitting the nas310s
> one?

Yes thanks. Aside from the commend from Bodhi I haven't seen any other
feedback. Not sure if you wanted to wait a bit longer.

> > Then I've got another set lined up for the boards using spi flash which
> > lays the groundwork for Jagan's spi changes. I may as well switch over
> > the i2c configs since the driver already supports DM. I'll probably send
> > those later this week.
> >
> > If i get really enthusiastic i might give converting the mvgbe driver to
> > DM a try but the hardware I have for testing is complicated.

> Sounds like a plan. Thanks for working on this.

No problem I'm keen to see Kirkwood hang around.


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