Re: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: add Device Tree for the Armada 385 RD board

[Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>]

On 06/03/2014 15:21, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Hi Gregory
>>>
>>> I guess checkpatch.pl is probably complaining about missing vendor
>>> prefix?
>>>
>>
>> yes and also about m25p128 itself because it was not explicitly written
>> in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/. Actually it was written to "see the
>> "m25p_ids" table in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c for the list of" the compatible
>> name.
>>
>> For the first warning I can add the vendor part, but for the other warning, do we
>> really want to copy the m25p_ids table in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt ?
> 
> I think the DT Maintainers and checkpatch.pl maintainers need to think
> about this. Maybe a regex would be enough in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt?
> 
> For the moment i would suggest adding a vendor prefix, but nothing
> more.

OK

> 
> 
>>>> +			/*
>>>> +			 * The Ethernet nodes are not ordered by
>>>> +			 * address on purpose. Indeed the first
>>>> +			 * Ethernet port of the board (Giga0) is
>>>> +			 * located at 0x70000 whereas the the second
>>>> +			 * Ethernet(Giga 1) port is located at
>>>> +			 * 0x30000.
>>>> +			 */
>>>> +
>>>> +			ethernet@70000 {
>>>> +				status = "okay";
>>>> +				phy = <&phy0>;
>>>> +				phy-mode = "rgmii";
>>>> +			};
>>>> +
>>>> +			ethernet@30000 {
>>>> +				status = "okay";
>>>> +				phy = <&phy1>;
>>>> +				phy-mode = "rgmii";
>>>> +			};
>>>> +
>>>
>>> I think you can use aliases to get the order correct, independent of
>>> how you list them in DT. That should be a lot safer than assuming
>>> things are instantiated from top to bottom.
>>
>> It sounds interesting, how would you do this?
> 
> As there already is in armada-370-xp.dtsi
> 
>         aliases {
>                 eth0 = &eth0;
>                 eth1 = &eth1;
>         };
> 
> 
> 	eth0: ethernet@70000 {
> 	}
>         eth1: ethernet@74000 {
> 	}
> 
> This at least works for i2c devices. The pdev->id is set using the
> alias number.

Well I think it doesn't work with ethernet devices because we already do
this in aramda-38x.dtsi:

	aliases {
		gpio0 = &gpio0;
		gpio1 = &gpio1;
		eth0 = &eth0;
		eth1 = &eth1;
		eth2 = &eth2;
	};

	eth1: ethernet@30000 {
	}
	eth2: ethernet@34000 {
	}
	eth0: ethernet@70000 {
	}


Thanks,

Gregory

> 
>       Andrew
> 
> 
> 


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