[PATCH v1 5/7] arm: dts: s700: add node for ethernet controller

[André Przywara]

On 12/05/2020 15:25, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:18:33PM +0100, André Przywara wrote:
>> On 09/05/2020 15:25, Amit Singh Tomar wrote:
>>> This patch adds node for ethernet controller found on Action Semi OWL
>>> S700 SoC.
>>>
>>> Since, there is no upstream Linux binding exist for S700 ethernet
>>> controller, Changes are put in u-boot specific dtsi file.
>>
>> But that should not be the S700 SoC .dtsi, instead the cubieboard .dts
>> file, since you specify the PHY mode in here (which is board specific).
> 
> The general way to move forward here is that bindings should be getting
> proposed to Linux and accepted there, and U-Boot can take a WIP of them,
> that gets updated later on to match, but we shouldn't get it here first.

Yes, this is of course a stop-gap measure, but a useful one: Being able
to TFTP a kernel helps with developing the kernel port, especially since
U-Boot doesn't support MMC (yet).
And there are easier things than pushing a DT binding into the kernel
tree without having a Linux driver ready ...

Cheers,
Andre