[U-Boot] [PATCH] phycore-pcl060: U-boot support for Phytec phyCORE PCL060

[Parthiban Nallathambi]

Hello Marek,

On 4/19/19 3:35 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 4/19/19 3:18 PM, Parthiban Nallathambi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
>>>> index d29f1ca0b5..9336439340 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ source "board/ti/am43xx/Kconfig"
>>>>  source "board/ti/am335x/Kconfig"
>>>>  source "board/compulab/cm_t335/Kconfig"
>>>>  source "board/compulab/cm_t43/Kconfig"
>>>> +source "board/phytec/phycore_pcl060/Kconfig"
>>>
>>> Here [1] it says the name of the SoM is PCM-060 , what is PCL-060 ?
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://www.phytec.eu/product-eu/system-on-modules/phycore-am335x-download/
>>>  [...]
>>
>> This differs only by the connector. PCM variants are pluggable and PCL variants
>> are direct soliderable to the carrier board.
>>
>> Copied from [1]:
>> The PCL-060 System On Module is a connector-less, BGA style variant of the
>> PCM-060/phyCORE-AM335x R2 SOM. Unlike traditional Phytec SOM products that support
>> high density connectors, the PCL-060 SOM is directly soldered down to the
>> phyBOARD-Wega AM335x using Phytec's Direct Solder Connect technology (DSC). This
>> solution offers an ultra-low cost Single Board Computer for the AM335x processor, while
>> maintaining most of the advantages of the SOM concept.
>>
>> [1] https://www.phytec.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/Manuals/L-845e_1.pdf
> 
> Ah damn, this looks like a consistency problem is coming up. We have
> multiple PCM* SoMs in U-Boot, one PCL* SoM and now another PCL/PCM SoM.
> But the PCL063 isn't even manufactured in variant with connectors, so I
> guess we can ignore that one.
> 
> I wonder whether we should stick to PCM* for all of the Phytec SoMs for
> consistency sake and document that PCL060 is also supported or maybe
> there's a better way ?

Does PCX/PCx makes sense? But we have the same problem with variscite [1] SoM's
(either SODIMM or solderable).

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2019-April/365667.html

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Thanks,
Parthiban N

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