Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add overlays to disable optional hardware in k3-am6xx-phycore-som boards

[Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@phytec.de>]

Add: Daniel Schultz

Am 03.06.24 um 19:41 schrieb Vignesh Raghavendra:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> On 29/05/24 04:21, Nathan Morrisson wrote:
>> Add three overlays to disable the eth phy, rtc, and spi nor. These
>> overlays will be used to disable device tree nodes for components
>> that are optionally not populated.
>>
>> v2:
>>    - Add build time tests in makefile
>>
>> Nathan Morrisson (4):
>>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am64-phycore-som: Add serial_flash label
> 
> 
>>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am6xx-phycore-som: Add overlay to disable eth phy
>>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am6xx-phycore-som: Add overlay to disable rtc
>>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am6xx-phycore-som: Add overlay to disabl spi nor
>>
>>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/Makefile               | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>   .../boot/dts/ti/k3-am64-phycore-som.dtsi      |  2 +-
>>   .../ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-eth-phy.dtso  | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   .../dts/ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-rtc.dtso  | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>   .../ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-spi-nor.dtso  | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>   5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-eth-phy.dtso
>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-rtc.dtso
>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am6xx-phycore-disable-spi-nor.dtso
>>
> 
> I am not sure if this a common practice to have overlays to disable
> missing components (at least I dont see such dtso in kernel). I would
> like to see an what DT maintainers feel as such dtsos can explode in
> numbers.
> 
> Is this something that U-Boot can detect and fix up for the Linux DT?
> 
> Unpopulated SPI flash and RTC should ideally not be an issue as drivers
> would gracefully fail albeit with some sort of error msg.
> Not so sure about Eth PHYs though.
> 
> Also, Are these dtso's mutually exclusive? ie can SoM have SPI flash but
> not RTC, have RTC and SPI Flash but no ETH PHY?
>