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

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 18:03:29 CEST 2020


On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:35 PM Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On 04/09/2020 14:02, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> > On 31.08.20 09:53, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> On Monday 31 August 2020 05:34:07 Andre Heider wrote:
> >>> This adds the disabled eMMC node.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   arch/arm/dts/armada-3720-espressobin.dts | 63 +++++++++---------------
> >>>   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> >>> b/arch/arm/dts/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> >>> index 4534f5ff29..a66ab814eb 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/arm/dts/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> >>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/armada-3720-espressobin.dts
> >>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> >>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> >>>   /*
> >>>    * Device Tree file for Marvell Armada 3720 community board
> >>>    * (ESPRESSOBin)
> >>> @@ -5,53 +6,15 @@
> >>>    *
> >>>    * Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
> >>>    * Konstantin Porotchkin <kostap at marvell.com>
> >>> - *
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> >>
> >> You are changing license of whole file. Have all contributors and
> >> copyright holders agreed with it?
> >
> > 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 ;)

The way U-Boot usually deals with this is syncs as much of the Linux
ones as possible and if there's bits not in the Linux one that's
needed to make/keep U-Boot working they add it in a XXX-u-boot.dtsi
file. There's a number of examples in the arch/arm/dts directory.


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