[PATCH 00/12] arm: xea: Provide support for different XEA board HW versions

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Fabio,

> Hi Lukasz,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 5:48 AM Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > The case here is that I'm modifying the *-u-boot.dts{i} files only.
> > In  
> 
> The diff below shows that you are creating imx28-xea-1.dts and
> imx28-xea-2.dts for U-Boot consumption and renaming the upstream
> imx28-xea.dts to imx28-xea.dts.
> 
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/imx28-xea-1.dts
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/imx28-xea-2-u-boot.dtsi
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/imx28-xea-2.dts
> rename arch/arm/dts/{imx28-xea.dts => imx28-xea.dtsi} (100%)
> 

Yes, exactly.

> > other words, u-boot will not support features described in Linux
> > DTS.  
> 
> That's OK and this happens frequently.
> 
> For example, upstream devicetree may describes audio codec,
> but U-Boot does not support audio playback.
> 
> Devicetree should be OS agnostic.
> 

Ok.

> In U-Boot, we want to re-use the upstream Linux devicetree files
> 'as-is'.
> 

Yes, I'm fully aware of this. However, the U-Boot size increases
rapidly...

> Adding -u-boot.dtsi files is OK though.
> 

Yes, this is a good way (with /delete-node) to reduce the size.

> Can you convert the imx28-xea board to OF_UPSTREAM available in the
> U-Boot next branch?

I will check if XEA can be moved to OF_UPSTREAM.

> 
> > Hence, the rename of files (which would be in sync with Linux at
> > some point) looks like not related to Linux DTS (as even after
> > re-sync with upstream Linux those changes will not be in Linux
> > DTS).  
> 
> I did not understand this part, do you mean that Linux will also do
> the imx28-xea.dts => imx28-xea.dtsi rename and will also have the new
> imx28-xea-1.dts and imx28-xea-2.dts?

Yes. Exactly. I started the conversion from u-boot. Updating Linux DTS
will be next.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fabio Estevam




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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