Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] dts: sun8i-h3: add UART1-3 to Orange Pi Plus

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

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On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 10:52:02AM +0200, Jorik Jonker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:04:38AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >In short, I'm ok with it. But please put an explicit
> >
> >   status = "disabled";
> >
> >and probably a comment about how/where the peripheral can be
> >used in the board dts.
> 
> Allright, I will do that in v3.
> 
> >I intended to do this for the Banana Pis. Though my original plan
> >was to enable Raspberry Pi compatible peripherals by default, and
> >list the other peripherals that are defined by the vendor as
> >"disabled".
> >
> >"Defined by the vendor" means that the vendor has some sort of
> >document associating the gpio header pins with the peripherals,
> >as shown in:
> >
> >   http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/Pindefinition.html#CON3_Definition
> >
> >This should make it easier for the average user to enable the
> >peripherals. I'm not sure we should list _all_ possible ones
> >though. That would make the list very large, and some might
> >end up never being used.
> 
> This is exactly what I was thinking, albeit I wanted to go a bit 'bigger':
> move all unambiguous pinmux/peripheral associations from the H3 DTS files to
> the DTSI, complete them with known associations for which there are drivers,
> and have all of these disabled. Reduce the existing blocks in the DTS files
> to just "status = okay".
> 
> Peripherals requiring board-specific things (like emac, USB, voltage
> regulators, displays) stay put in the DTS.
> 
> It will explodes the scope of my proposed change a bit, but if you are OK
> with this, I will gladly do it.
> 
> Maxime, Chen-Yu: what do you think of this?

I'm not exactly sure what you have in mind. Please send a patch, and
we'll see then :)

Maxime

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