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

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 11:40 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> 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.

Not really because I'm using it and I intend to use it in OpenWrt...
More like a wildcard covering several products? Dunno how
else to put it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij