From: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
To: "Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>,
Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64: broadcom: bcm2712: Rework rp1 overlay handling
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 14:58:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTgrHEoxl7J8_BuU@apocalypse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251117211503.728354-2-robh@kernel.org>
Hi Rob,
sorry for the delay...
On 15:15 Mon 17 Nov , Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> It's a requirement that DT overlays be applied at build time in order to
> validate them as overlays are not validated on their own.
>
> Simply adding a build time target is possible, but it's also not desirable
> to have targets which include the overlay contents and apply the same
> overlay.
>
> Rework the targets such that there are 2 overlays: the existing RP1 overlay
> and the board specific configuration of the RP1 (bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
> The missing applying of rp1.dtbo will soon be a warning[1].
>
> The comment in bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts(o) needs updating or removing. The RP1
> driver or userspace handling of the overlay probably needs updating to
> handle the 2 overlays. IIRC, I think we can apply overlays to overlays
> which may be useful here. If not, adding that to the tools should be
> possible.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251114222759.4181152-1-robh@kernel.org/
> ---
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile | 10 ++++++++--
> ...m2712-d-rpi-5-b.dts => bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dts} | 2 +-
> .../{bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts => bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso} | 11 +++++------
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> rename arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/{bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dts => bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dts} (95%)
> rename arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/{bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts => bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso} (92%)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile
> index 83d45afc6588..4957edec9d9f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile
> @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ DTC_FLAGS := -@
> dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_BCM2835) += bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb \
> bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb \
> bcm2711-rpi-cm4-io.dtb \
> - bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb \
> + bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtbo \
> bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dtb \
> - bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dtb \
> + bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dtb \
> bcm2837-rpi-2-b.dtb \
> bcm2837-rpi-3-a-plus.dtb \
> bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb \
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_BCM2835) += bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb \
> bcm2837-rpi-zero-2-w.dtb \
> rp1.dtbo
>
> +bcm2712-rpi-5-b-dtbs := bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dtb rp1.dtbo bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtbo
> +dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_BCM2835) += bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb
> +
> +bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-dtbs := bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dtb rp1.dtbo bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtbo
> +dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_BCM2835) += bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dtb
> +
> subdir-y += bcmbca
> subdir-y += northstar2
> subdir-y += stingray
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dts
> similarity index 95%
> rename from arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dts
> rename to arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dts
> index 7de24d60bcd1..48a0ae118839 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-d-rpi-5-b-base.dts
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
> /dts-v1/;
>
> -#include "bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts"
> +#include "bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts"
>
> &gio_aon {
> brcm,gpio-bank-widths = <15 6>;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso
> similarity index 92%
> rename from arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
> rename to arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso
> index b8f256545022..89d099c00035 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtso
> @@ -15,19 +15,18 @@
> */
>
> /dts-v1/;
> +/plugin/;
>
> -#include "bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts"
> -
> -&pcie2 {
> - #include "rp1-nexus.dtsi"
> -};
> +#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
Sounds reasonable to me, please let me have a full round of tests to check for
any issue with the driver and I'll come back with feedback.
>
> &rp1_eth {
> status = "okay";
> phy-mode = "rgmii-id";
> phy-handle = <&phy1>;
> + #address-cells = <1>;
> + #size-cells = <0>;
I think this should go in a separate patch.
>
> - mdio {
> + mdio@1 {
Ditto.
Many thanks,
Andrea
> reg = <0x1>;
> reset-gpios = <&rp1_gpio 32 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> reset-delay-us = <5000>;
> --
> 2.51.0
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-09 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-17 21:15 [RFC PATCH] arm64: broadcom: bcm2712: Rework rp1 overlay handling Rob Herring (Arm)
2025-12-05 8:08 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-12-05 16:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2025-12-09 13:58 ` Andrea della Porta [this message]
2025-12-18 13:43 ` Andrea della Porta
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