Re: [PATCH] riscv: dts: starfive: jh7110-common: fix jh7110 SoC boot from SD-card.

From: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>
To: E Shattow <e@freeshell.de>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Ilya Sorochan <k0tran@altlinux.org>,
	Conor Dooley <mail@conchuod.ie>,
	Emil Renner Berthing <kernel@esmil.dk>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: dts: starfive: jh7110-common: fix jh7110 SoC boot from SD-card.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:59:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729-electable-remake-1b8c94a452b7@spud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a32646aa-446a-4f95-9293-40001aeedae5@freeshell.de>

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 02:39:50AM -0700, E Shattow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/28/26 11:02, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > From: Conor Dooley <mail@conchuod.ie>
> > 
> > On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:19:39 +0300, Ilya Sorochan wrote:
> >> Add bootph-pre-ram to mmc1_pins clk-pins.
> >>
> >> U-Boot pruned their overrides recently in favor of Linux which broke booting
> >> from sd-card for me and Heinrich Schuchardt [1]. Pruning commit:
> >> 27f617019dd070cb61f2 ("riscv: dts: starfive: prune redundant jh7110-common overrides")
> >>
> >> [1]  https://lore.kernel.org/all/ffdfc550-559b-4c59-9873-3f040fc3bb0e@canonical.com/
> >>
> >> [...]
> > 
> > Right, I am going to try this again. I don't think there's actually a
> > valid technical argument against it, since it just affects the stage at
> > which configuration is applied rather than configuration itself.
> > If the configuration is wrong, and more devices don't use this configuration
> > than do, people need to move the node to where they think should be. That
> > shall be done separately.
> > 
> > I don't want to hear about the politics about whether or not Starfive want
> > to support it or reverse engineering of binaries etc. All that I care about
> > is discussion of the hardware itself and which boards need this and which do
> > not.
> > 
> > Applied to riscv-dt-fixes, thanks!
> > 
> > [1/1] riscv: dts: starfive: jh7110-common: fix jh7110 SoC boot from SD-card.
> >       https://git.kernel.org/conor/c/42c57c049054
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Conor.
> 
> Second NAK to this being applied, again, do not apply as-is.
> 
> As you're not interested in the technical discussion, then you won't
> have one.

I am interested in technical discussion of the hardware configuration. I'm
not interested in reverse engineering of binaries, GPL compliance or
whether Starfive want this to work or not because I don't see how they
relate to the correctness of the hardware description.

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