[PATCH 1/4] arm: dts: am335x-boneblack: Extract common config

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:32 AM Paul Barker <paul.barker at sancloud.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:05:46 +0100
> Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM Paul Barker
> > <paul.barker at sancloud.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Configuration which is shared between the BeagleBone Black and
> > > derivative boards like the Sancloud BeagleBone Enhanced (BBE) is
> > > moved to a common dtsi file to prevent duplication.
> >
> > Are these being sent upstream to the linux kernel?
>
> The upstream kernel already has am335x-boneblack-common.dtsi and
> am335x-sancloud-bbe.dts files, since 2016 and 2018 respectively. As
> these files fell out of sync over 4 years ago I've assumed there is no
> need to keep them in sync. We could try to resync things but that would
> lead to an unnecessary risk of breakage, I don't have every BeagleBone
> Black derivative board on hand to fully test such a resync.

So are the changes above in the Linux kernel already? Or this diverge
them even more?