[PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: armada-3720-espressobin: sync with downstream

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Sun Sep 6 11:21:41 CEST 2020


On Friday 04 September 2020 17:36:18 Andre Heider wrote:
> On 04/09/2020 14:40, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> > 
> > On 04.09.20 14:35, Andre Heider wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > > First I though that you have been syncing the file with the Linux kernel
> > > > version. But now I see that its sync'ed with downstream U-Boot most
> > > > likely. As for the license of the file: The Linux kernel version has
> > > > this SPDX tag:
> > > > 
> > > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
> > > > 
> > > > Changing this to this tag would haven been fine (AFAICT). But using a
> > > > diffent one from a downstream U-Boot repository is a bit troublesome
> > > > for my taste.
> > > > 
> > > > Can't you sync with Linux dts/dtsi files instead at some point?
> > > 
> > > at some point, yes. As far as I understand that's not yet possible
> > > due to the comphy driver. Quoting Marek's cover letter "[PATCH
> > > u-boot-marvell 00/11] Armada 37xx: port comphy to generic-phys
> > > (PLEASE TEST)" from 19th April:
> > > 
> > >  > I have ported the COMPHY and UTMI PHY drivers from Linux to U-Boot.
> > >  > With this we are able to abandon the current comphy_a3700 driver,
> > > which
> > >  > is incompatible with Linux' device trees. So if we want to have DTS
> > >  > files for A3720 boards identical to Linux', we have to do this.
> > > 
> > > So unfortunately we can't use Linux' dts files for a3700 yet. Marek
> > > said he plans to work on that set again in the near future, so
> > > hopefully that lands rather sooner than later ;)
> > 
> > Ah, thanks. I remember now. ;)
> > 
> > Can you then please drop the sync with the downstream dts and better
> > only make the necessary changes for eMMC? In a git bisectable way
> > please?
> 
> Sure, I've just sent v2, completely redone. That also prepares synching from
> Linux, actually already imports two dts from from there.

So synchronization with Linux DTS files needs to wait until Armada
comphy patches are finished and merged into mainline U-Boot.


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