Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: nxp/imx6: Drop unused .dtsi

[Frank Li <Frank.li@oss.nxp.com>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Marco Felsch wrote:
> On 26-11-05 16:09, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > On 26-11-05 09:06, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 26-11-05 08:49, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > > > > These .dtsi files are not included anywhere in the tree and can't be
> > > > > tested.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > v2:
> > > > >  - Rebased
> > > > >
> > > > > It's been nearly a year and these are still orphans. There was a promise
> > > > > to upstream something for the kontron ones, but that hasn't happened.
> > > >
> > > > That's unfortunate, but these includes are used at least by the barebox
> > > > bootloader [1,2], dropping these would cause a DT regresssion.
> > > >
> > > > Would it help to upstream [1,2]?
> > >
> > > You said you were going to do that on v1:
> >
> > Unfortunate no Kontron dev was chiming in. Will do it now!
>
> Okay, after checking the current linux source tree I noticed that
> Kontron did upstream the carrier board .dts files but in a different
> manner:
>
>  * arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i-ads2.dts
>  * arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i-ads2.dts
>
> This means that barebox would need to adapt the includes. Can you please
> mention that the .dtsi are not used by linux mainline and instead a
> different approach was used?

So, Is it okay to pick this patch?

Frank

>
> Regards,
>   Marco
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Marco
> >
> > >
> > > >> I will add the som.dts, please don't remove the kontron dtsi files yet.
> >
> >
>