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

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

So it's kind of a dummy example? OK. Those aren't unheard of in the
kernel, or maybe they're just sneakily there.

-- 
Tom
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