[PATCH] arm: dts: fix ast2500-evb inclusion for correct target

Thirupathaiah Annapureddy thiruan at linux.microsoft.com
Sun Aug 23 07:24:58 CEST 2020



On 8/20/2020 5:03 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:09:55PM -0700, Thirupathaiah Annapureddy wrote:
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Thanks for reviewing the patch. Please see my comment(s):
>>
>> On 8/19/2020 7:06 PM, Ryan Chen wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Thirupathaiah Annapureddy [mailto:thiruan at linux.microsoft.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 8:16 AM
>>>> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>>>> Cc: Maxim Sloyko <maxims at google.com>; Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>;
>>>> ChiaWei Wang <chiawei_wang at aspeedtech.com>; Ryan Chen
>>>> <ryan_chen at aspeedtech.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: dts: fix ast2500-evb inclusion for correct target
>>>>
>>>> Adding Ryan and Chiawei to the list.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/17/2020 5:53 PM, Thirupathaiah Annapureddy wrote:
>>>>> Include ast2500-evb.dtb for CONFIG_TARGET_EVB_AST2500 instead of for
>>>>> all aspeed targets.
>>>
>>> There should not have to many Kconfig for ASPEED platform. 
>> When you build U-Boot, you have to provide a platform specific defconfig
>> as the target. ex: evb-ast2500_defconfig.
>> defconfig specifies the platform specific device tree file.
>> ex: CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="ast2500-evb"
>>
>> I do not see any reason to make other device trees (ex: ast2600a0-evb.dtb)
>> when we are building for evb-ast2500.
> 
> It keeps the Makefile logic clearer and makes future moves towards more
> platforms in a single binary easier if we just build all of the dtb
> files.
> 
ast2400 is based on ARM926EJ-S processor (ARMv5-architecture).
ast2500 is based on ARM1176JZS processor (ARMv6-architecture).
ast2600 is based on Cortex A7 processor (ARMv7-A architecture).

Each of the above SOC is using a different ARM CPU(s) with different ARM
architecture revision. Is it possible for single binary to support multiple
platforms based on above SOCs? 


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