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

[André Przywara]

On 12/05/2020 16:09, Tom Rini wrote:

Hi,

> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:53:55PM +0100, André Przywara wrote:
>> 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 ...
> 
> So, we're at -rc2 for v2020.07.  The DDR calculation stuff I can see
> getting pulled in.  Is the ethernet driver for this SoC so far from done
> that it's not ready for linux-next?  Things don't have to be in mainline
> proper, but the expectation is that it's making reasonable progress
> there and been reviewed so that binding changes between what we take in
> U-Boot at first and a final re-sync once it is in mainline are minimal.

I don't think there is any particular rush in getting this actually
merged. After all it seems like the users of this board can be counted
on one hand.
I think it's nice to have this on the list, so interested parties can
pull it in if there is a need. But we can surely wait how the binding
evolves in the kernel tree, though this might take some time.

Cheers,
Andre.