[PATCH] arm: mvebu: Espressobin: Fix checks against machine compatible strings

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Thu Oct 1 12:54:17 CEST 2020


On 01.10.20 12:48, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2020 12:42:21 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> On 01.10.20 10:23, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 29 September 2020 14:43:25 Andre Heider wrote:
>>>> On 29/09/2020 14:38, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 29 September 2020 14:34:26 Andre Heider wrote:
>>>>>> The patches changing the compatible strings to the ones used by Linux have
>>>>>> not been merged yet, so fix the checks to use the current in-tree ones.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reported-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>    board/Marvell/mvebu_armada-37xx/board.c | 4 ++--
>>>>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/board/Marvell/mvebu_armada-37xx/board.c b/board/Marvell/mvebu_armada-37xx/board.c
>>>>>> index eacee15cb3..2bfc7171c4 100644
>>>>>> --- a/board/Marvell/mvebu_armada-37xx/board.c
>>>>>> +++ b/board/Marvell/mvebu_armada-37xx/board.c
>>>>>> @@ -88,14 +88,14 @@ int board_late_init(void)
>>>>>>    	if (env_get("fdtfile"))
>>>>>>    		return 0;
>>>>>> -	if (!of_machine_is_compatible("globalscale,espressobin"))
>>>>>> +	if (!of_machine_is_compatible("marvell,armada-3720-espressobin"))
>>
>> Linux v5.9-rc6
>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/armada-3720-espressobin.dts:19:
>> compatible = "globalscale,espressobin", "marvell,armada3720",
>> "marvell,armada3710";
>>
>> This value has been in Linux since 2016.
>>
>> We should be able to boot with the U-Boot internal device tree into Linux.
> 
> Hello Heinrich!
> 
> This is not possible yet as Linux kernel uses different comphy driver as
> U-Boot and device tree structure for these drivers are different.
> 
> So you cannot use U-Boot internal device tree file for booting Linux
> kernel.
> 
>> So fix the device tree in U-Boot and not the C code, please.
> 
> Yes, this is ongoing work, Marek is working on replacing U-Boot comphy
> driver one from Linux kernel and Andre is working on synchronizing DTS
> files from Linux kernel to U-Boot. But these works are not complete yet
> and we need non-broken U-Boot 2020.10 release.

Thanks for the explanation Pali. Yes, this fix is only temporarily for
the upcoming release. The DT sync will continue after the 2020.10
release.

Thanks,
Stefan

>> Best regards
>>
>> Heinrich
>>
>>>>>>    		return 0;
>>>>>>    	/* If the memory controller has been configured for DDR4, we're running on v7 */
>>>>>>    	ddr4 = ((readl(A3700_CH0_MC_CTRL2_REG) >> A3700_MC_CTRL2_SDRAM_TYPE_OFFS)
>>>>>>    		& A3700_MC_CTRL2_SDRAM_TYPE_MASK) == A3700_MC_CTRL2_SDRAM_TYPE_DDR4;
>>>>>> -	emmc = of_machine_is_compatible("globalscale,espressobin-emmc");
>>>>>> +	emmc = of_machine_is_compatible("marvell,armada-3720-espressobin-emmc");
>>>>>
>>>>> I run 'git grep marvell,armada-3720-espressobin-emmc origin/master' just
>>>>> for verification... but it returned me empty result.
>>>>>
>>>>> So marvell,armada-3720-espressobin-emmc is not correct too and therefore
>>>>> this patch does not still fix this problem.
>>>>
>>>> Right, without my set there is no support for the eMMC board in u-boot at
>>>> all. We could remove the code, but I figured that'll be just unnecessary
>>>> churn. The check evaluates correctly to non-emmc, so it works for the
>>>> in-tree board just fine. This is the smaller fixup for the release.
>>>
>>> Ok, Lets include it!
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
>>>
>>> Stefan, can you send this patch for U-Boot 2020.10 release?
>>>
>>> Maybe following patch for documentation (doc/README.marvell) may be useful to:
>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20200925075416.16124-1-pali@kernel.org/
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>    	if (ddr4 && emmc)
>>>>>>    		env_set("fdtfile", "marvell/armada-3720-espressobin-v7-emmc.dtb");
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 2.28.0
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>


Viele Grüße,
Stefan

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