On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 05:42:03PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> The Armada 38x and 98DX3236 SoCs use this compatible, either paired
> with "ns16550a" (armada-38x.dtsi) or on its own
> (armada-xp-98dx3236.dtsi). Neither form is covered by the 8250
> binding, so dtbs_check reports:
> 
>   serial@12000: failed to match any schema with compatible:
>   ['marvell,armada-38x-uart', 'ns16550a']
> 
> Add a standalone const entry and a two-string variant paired with
> "ns16550a".

Only one of these is correct, add one and fix the users.
Given there's match data, it's probably the standalone one.

pw-bot: changes-requested

Thanks,
Conor.

> 
> Validated with make dt_binding_check (8250.yaml) and dt-validate on
> armada-38x and armada-xp 98DX3236 boards: the UART schema errors are
> gone.
> 
> Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
> index 8c2c177faf89..f71c6afe02f2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ properties:
>        - const: aspeed,ast2500-vuart
>        - const: intel,xscale-uart
>        - const: mrvl,pxa-uart
> +      - const: marvell,armada-38x-uart
>        - const: nuvoton,wpcm450-uart
>        - const: nuvoton,npcm750-uart
>        - const: nvidia,tegra20-uart
> @@ -119,6 +120,9 @@ properties:
>                - exar,xr16l2551
>                - exar,xr16l2550
>            - const: ns8250
> +      - items:
> +          - const: marvell,armada-38x-uart
> +          - const: ns16550a
>        - items:
>            - enum:
>                - altr,16550-FIFO32
> -- 
> 2.55.0
>