[PATCH 1/5] arm: mvebu: a7040/a8040/cn9130: Add spi0 dts reference

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Fri Aug 5 12:49:57 CEST 2022


On Friday 05 August 2022 12:25:55 Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 04.08.22 17:07, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > And you bring another issue :-) U-Boot DTS files for 64-bit Armada SoCs
> > (expects 3720) differs from kernel DTS files. They are incompatible and
> > nobody fixed this issue yet. I fixed it only for 64-bit Armada 3720 as
> > we are using and maintaining Armada 3720 boards.
> 
> Yes, I am aware of this.
> 
> > So I just do not know what to do with remaining 64-bit
> > A7040/A8040/CN9030 SoCs. I just added simple harmless change which do
> > not change behavior nor output of those boards.
> > 
> > Either somebody has to start working on fixing U-Boot support and DTS
> > files for those boards to be compatible with Linux kernel. Or those SoCs
> > stays incompatible with Linux and their technical debt in U-Boot code
> > just grow. Or you as maintainer can decide that they are unmaintained
> > (and ready for removal?).
> > 
> > I'm just not going to do this big cleanup for A7040/A8040/CN9030 SoCs too.
> 
> Understood. Let's keep the situation in this unfortunate state a while
> longer. Hopefully someone will find the time to work on this. If
> nothing changes in a longer period we should think again about this.

Ok!


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