[PATCH v4 5/5] board: Add new Broadcom Northstar board

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > This adds a simple Northstar "BRCMNS" board to be used with
> > the BCM4709x and BCM5301x chips.
> >
> > The main intention is to use this with the D-Link DIR-890L
> > and DIR-885L routers for loading the kernel into RAM from
> > NAND memory using the BCH-1 ECC and using the separately
> > submitted SEAMA load command, so we are currently not adding
> > support for things such as networking.
> >
> > If other board need other ECC for example, they need to
> > create a separate DTS file and augment the code, but I don't
> > know if any other users will turn up.
> >
> > Cc: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > ---
> > ChangeLog v3->v4:
> > - No changes
> > ChangeLog v1->v3:
> > - Bundle with the iproc nand and algo select patches
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Kconfig                 |  1 +
> >  arch/arm/dts/Makefile            |  2 ++
> >  arch/arm/dts/ns-board.dts        | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> To be clear, what Linux kernel tag is this dts file from?

This is constructed for u-boot, it just contains a subset making
U-boot work fine on any D-Link NorthStar device.

It's similar to how we created "stemmy" for all U8500 Samsung phones.

> And not a hard requirement at this time, but you should probably make a
> plain text environment (see board/*/*/*.env) instead of EXTRA_SETTINGS.

Hm news2me, I'll look into it!

Yours,
Linus Walleij