[PATCH v4 06/10] dts: basic devicetree for Renesas RZ/N1 SoC
Marek Vasut
marek.vasut at mailbox.org
Mon Apr 17 19:12:31 CEST 2023
On 3/8/23 21:26, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> This is taken from Linux kernel 5.17, and contains just bare minimum
> functionality: CPU, UART and system timer.
Why Linux 5.17 and not e.g. 6.2 or 6.1 LTS ?
> Additional functionality (from newer kernel versions) will be added
> later. Note that the Linux side is under active development.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Siemsen <ralph.siemsen at linaro.org>
> ---
> The following changes were made, compared with Linux 5.17:
>
> 1) Add node for system controller registers.
> Declare it as syscon to provide a regmap interface.
>
> 2) In the clock controller node (renesas,r9a06g032-sysctrl),
> replace regs with regmap.
>
> 3) Add syscon-reset node, making use of the syscon regmap.
>
> 4) Add syscon phandle to ddrctrl. Used for checking h/w version.
>
> 5) Simplify the compatible string for all the UARTS, as per
> doc/device-tree-bindings/serial/snps-dw-apb-uart.txt
>
> I could not find a way to avoid 1) and 2). Putting "syscon" in the
> compatible string for the clock controller leads to a catch-22,
> where the driver fails to initialize, and then boot hangs.
Can you extract all the changes to arch/arm/dts/r9a06g032-u-boot.dtsi
and include that u-boot dtsi in your board DT, so the
arch/arm/dts/r9a06g032.dtsi can be synchronized with Linux with ease due
to no changes in it ?
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