[PATCH v1 00/15] add basic driver support for broadcom NS3 soc

[Simon Glass]

Hi Rayagonda,

On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 23:19, Rayagonda Kokatanur
<rayagonda.kokatanur at broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:34 AM Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at fitzsim.org> wrote:
> >
> > Rayagonda Kokatanur <rayagonda.kokatanur at broadcom.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:01 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:39:49PM +0530, Rayagonda Kokatanur wrote:
> > >> > Hi Tom,
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:46 AM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 01:49:30PM +0530, Rayagonda Kokatanur wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > This is the second patch set series prepared on top of the
> > >> > > > first patch set ("add initial support for broadcom NS3 soc").
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > This patch set will add following,
> > >> > > > -dt nodes and defconfig options for basic device like pinctrl,
> > >> > > >  gpio, mmc, qspi, wdt, i2c and pcie.
> > >> > > > -start wdt service
> > >> > > > -Enable GPT commands
> > >> > > > -Enable EXT4 and FAT fs support
> > >> > >
> > >> > > All of the dts changes not in a -u-boot.dtsi file either come from
> > >> > > mainline Linux or at least linux-next and have had some level upstream
> > >> > > review, right?  Thanks!
> > >> >
> > >> > Yes. All the DTS changes are merged in the Linux and are available at
> > >> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/stingray/
> > >>
> > >> Great.  Please reference the release you're taking these from as that
> > >> will make future resyncs easier.  Thanks!
> > >
> > > It's Linux v5.6.
> >
> > What's the relationship between e.g., bcm958742t.dts and ns3.dts?  I
> > looked at the mainline Linux device trees and I couldn't easily see the
> > correspondence.  Will the renaming complicate synchronization?
>
> Do we need to maintain the same dt file between linux and uboot ?
> Also in uboot we don't enable all devices,  how do we handle this ?

If there is no U-Boot driver for a particular node then it will be
ignored. It is easier to keep them in sync if they are the same in
U-Boot and Linux.

> Please let me know.

That is implied by your question above :-)

Regards,
SImon