Re: [PATCH 1/8] dt-bindings: arm: fsl: add NXP S32G2 boards

Andreas Färber
2021-09-09T11:51:52Z

On 13.08.21 19:53, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 02:54:22PM +0800, Chester Lin wrote:
>> Add bindings for S32G2's evaluation board (S32G-VNP-EVB) and reference
>> design 2 board ( S32G-VNP-RDB2).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chester Lin <clin@suse.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml | 7 +++++++
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>> index e2097011c4b0..3914aa09e503 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fsl.yaml
>> @@ -983,6 +983,13 @@ properties:
>> - const: solidrun,lx2160a-cex7
>> - const: fsl,lx2160a
>>
>> + - description: S32G2 based Boards
>> + items:
>> + - enum:
>> + - fsl,s32g274a-evb
>> + - fsl,s32g274a-rdb2
>> + - const: fsl,s32g2
>
> Given this is an entirely different family from i.MX and new?, shouldn't
> it use 'nxp' instead of 'fsl'?

S32V also still used fsl prefix, despite the company name long being NXP
(same for several Layerscape and i.MX models).

If, as Radu indicated on 3/8, NXP wants to make that switch now for S32G
then I see no reason against nxp. I verified that it's already defined:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.yaml

However, should the matching .dts[i] files using nxp prefix (4-6/8) then
still go under dts/freescale/, or should they go to a new dts/nxp/ then?
That would separate it from S32V. Intel did do a switch from dts/altera/
to dts/intel/ at some point, so there's precedence for either, I guess.
No idea whether anything might break if we moved S32V alongside S32G.

Similarly, the easiest and most merge-friendly would be to leave
arm/fsl.yaml and add the nxp-prefixed S32G2 there, as done here. If NXP
want to rename fsl.yaml to nxp.yaml in a general housekeeping effort,
that could be done independently, outside Chester's patchset.

> Either way,
>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Andreas

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