Re: [PATCH 15/16] misc: lan966x_pci: Add dtso nodes in order to support SFPs

Thomas Petazzoni
2025-04-10T06:48:17Z

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 17:03:45 +0200
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:

> So it only supports a single .dtbo. In its current form it does not
> scale to multiple .dtso files for multiple different boards built
> around the PCIe chip.
>
> At the moment, that is not really an issue, but when the second board
> comes along, some refactoring will be needed.

Indeed, but that's really an implementation detail. It doesn't change
anything to the overall approach. The only thing that would have to
change is how the driver gets the .dtbo. We could bundle several .dtbos
in the driver, we could fall back to request_firmware(), etc.

Best regards,

Thomas
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