Re: [PATCH 08/11] misc: rp1: RaspberryPi RP1 misc driver

Andrea della Porta
2024-09-02T09:38:15Z

Hi Rob,

On 13:27 Fri 30 Aug , Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:31 AM Andrea della Porta
> <andrea.porta@suse.com> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > Since u-boot is lacking support for RP1 we cannot really produce some test
> > results to check the compatibility versus kernel dtb overlay but we can
> > speculate a little bit about it. AFAIK u-boot would probably place the rp1
> > node directly under its pcie@12000 node in DT while the dtb overlay will use
> > dynamically created PCI endpoint node (dev@0) as parent for rp1 node.
>
> u-boot could do that and it would not be following the 25+ year old
> PCI bus bindings. Some things may be argued about as "Linux bindings",
> but that isn't one of them.

Indeed. It was just speculation, not something I would bet on.

Regards,
Andrea

>
> Rob