From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Daney Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/6] arm64, dt, thunderx: Add initial dts for Cavium Thunderx in 2 node topology. Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:49:56 -0800 Message-ID: <569D25C4.3060806@gmail.com> References: <1453134965-6125-1-git-send-email-gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> <1453134965-6125-5-git-send-email-gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Nnzi80c/MdxMyFNvd6NO20/7Scsdvf9+16MV6c7r4I8=; b=iOU6W/P0Vq0ZxPGOFa21yd+B/SqMY3E7ifwXZMJmna/YOK7pN1DPN6sQ5D9PrYX4gc ObLpjB3ENq4QG4Whc29ewkPEAMCw7GmrEMmPgBlBy3RJpevotJut22NnmNvzx+4g1G1B EyMcaZvBk97S2Iu1A/a7/EMvw8lauq/Z21fuADDOX1TfiWqJNosvGF6RqMtjNn+G2PX2 q2HeQgxtgKEfzIbHJMrhhab2WL+Z+Vuh+2pqlts5WwjHfkZnweofeXTXV98gU8eSlBK5 G/y0A+U6reOtrFg3ECSoRI0zWQ7kEByReJU7+Lg1MviqV1yFyJAQNrB0Bb/pp+B0zG8T YoaQ== In-Reply-To: <1453134965-6125-5-git-send-email-gkulkarni@caviumnetworks.com> Sender: linux-ia64-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ganapatrao Kulkarni Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will.Deacon@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, leif.lindholm@linaro.org, rfranz@cavium.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, msalter@redhat.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, steve.capper@linaro.org, hanjun.guo@linaro.org, al.stone@linaro.org, arnd@arndb.de, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, lenb@kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, bhelgaas@google.com, tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, james.hogan@imgtec.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@r On 01/18/2016 08:36 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote: > Adding dt file for Cavium's Thunderx dual socket platform. > > Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni > --- > arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/Makefile | 2 +- > arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-88xx-2n.dts | 83 +++ > arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-88xx-2n.dtsi | 806 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 890 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-88xx-2n.dts > create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/cavium/thunder-88xx-2n.dtsi > These files are useless, they don't contain device nodes for anything other than the UARTs. There is no existing system that has only UARTs and no other devices, so these files cannot be (and can never be) used anywhere. Since the boot firmware in all real, and emulated, systems is supplying correct DTBs, we should consider not merging these files, and removing the likewise useless thunder-88xx.dts thunder-88xx.dtsi David Daney [...]