Re: [J-core] [PATCH v5 00/22] sh: LANDISK and R2Dplus convert to device tree

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 06:49:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I’ll have a go at this tonight and if the patches still apply fine, I’d just say go for it.

There were significant problems that I don't think were ever
addressed, including incompatible changes in how boot command line was
handled and possibly ambiguity about what a physical address means
(zero based vs based in the zone SH3/4 excludes from MMU mapping) in
the contract for how the bootloader passes a DTB pointer in to the
kernel, or something similar.

This is a large part of why I want to get to the point where I can
build and boot a kernel on the LANDISK -- not being able to test any
of this is a blocker for moving everything to device tree.

Rich

> > On Nov 17, 2017, at 6:39 PM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 11/17/2017 04:37 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> >> Hi there!
> >> 
> >>> On 07/03/2016 06:46 PM, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> >>> SH get devicetree support. But it not working on existing H/W.
> >>> 
> >>> IO-DATA HDL-U (aka landisk) currentry supported.
> >>> This H/W like SH7751 evalution board. It's a best to use this as a
> >>> change base H/W.
> >>> RTS7751R2Dplus is QEMU-SH4 target. So easy trying.
> >> 
> >> This patch series - which would make a huge improvement - is still not
> >> applied. It would be very useful to be able to test the device tree
> >> implementation with QEMU.
> >> 
> >> Any of the SH maintainers can apply this?
> > 
> > It's Rich's call, but given that it's _from_ one of the sh maintainers,
> > sounds to me like it can just go in if it still applies? (If there's
> > bugfixes needed they can go in -rc2 or so, after this merge window.)
> > 
> > Given that qemu serial's been broken for 9 months now, I doubt this
> > would make anything worse. (I should really check Cedric's qemu fork to
> > see if he fixed that...)
> > 
> > Rob