Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: dts: qcom: Commonize IQ-X-IOT DTSI

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 29/12/2025 08:38, Yijie Yang wrote:
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> On 12/29/2025 3:21 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 29/12/2025 02:23, Tingwei Zhang wrote:
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>>> On 12/24/2025 8:12 AM, Tingwei Zhang wrote:
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>>>> On 12/23/2025 9:41 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>> On 23/12/2025 04:38, Tingwei Zhang wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/22/2025 5:11 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 02:03:28PM +0800, YijieYang wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Yijie Yang <yijie.yang@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> HAMOA-IOT-EVK and PURWA-IOT-EVK share a similar board design. Extract
>>>>>>>> the common components into separate files for better maintainability.
>>>>>>> SoMs do not share actual hardware. DTSI does not represent what looks
>>>>>>> similar to you, but actually common parts.
>>>>>> Purwa SOM board and Hamoa SOM board share same design. They share same PCB.
>>>>>> The difference is only on chip. Purwa SOM board has Purwa and Hamoa SOM board
>>>>>> has Hamoa on it.
>>>>> I do not speak about boards. Read carefully feedback and respond to the
>>>>> actual feedback, not some other arguments.
>>>>>
>>>>> NAK
>>>> In this change, the SoM hardware except SoC is described by iq-x-iot-som.dtsi since it's common between Hamoa and Purwa. Hamoa and Purwa SoC hardware is described in hamoa.dtsi and purwa.dtsi. Hamoa-iot-som.dtsi includes iq-x-iot-som.dtsi and hamoa.dtsi. This change could reduce the duplicate code and review effort on a totally new purwa-iot-som.dtsi. If we found any bug, it can be fixed in one common file instead of two separate files. Same idea is used in x1-crd.dtsi. X1e80100-crd.dts include x1-crd.dtsi and hamoa.dtsi.
>>> Krzysztof,
>>> Please let me know your opinion on this. This could be a common case for
>>> Hamoa/Purwa boards share same PCB. Share same dtsi file like x1-crd.dtsi
>>
>> It's not the same PCB.  You did not really respond to my first message,
>> so I responded to you - I do not speak about boards. Then again you did
>> not respond to it and brought some irrelevant arguments.
>>
>>> would reduce maintenance effort.
>>
>> Does not matter, I do not question this. Why are you responding to some
>> questions which were never asked?
>>
>> DTSI represents actual shared physical aspect and you cannot share SoM
>> physically. It's not the same PCB, because you do not have a socket on
>> the SoM.
> 
> x1e80100-crd and x1p42100-crd are different boards, yet they share the 
> same x1-crd.dtsi. Why can’t we apply the same approach here?


You should ask the authors there, not me. I presume that the baseboard
is the same or very similar. Or pieces of the baseboard are re-used
which could be visible in the schematics (same MCN numbers etc).

Best regards,
Krzysztof