[PATCH 0/2] Establish the roles of board DTSes for Raspberry Pi5

[PATCH 0/2] Establish the roles of board DTSes for Raspberry Pi5

[Andrea della Porta]

Hi,

this patchset is composed of the following:

- patch 1: just a cleanup to get rid of duplicated declarations in the
  board DTS for BCM2712.

- patch 2: explicitly states what BCM2712 board DTS will host the
  customized nodes that refer to RP1 internal peripherals. This is
  important so that followup patches add the nodes to the correct
  DTS file. For more information about why it has to be done, please
  take a look to the patch comment.

Andrea della Porta (2):
  arm64: dts: broadcom: delete redundant pcie enablement nodes
  arm64: dts: broadcom: amend the comment about the role of BCM2712
    board DTS

 .../boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts      | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

-- 
2.35.3

[PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: delete redundant pcie enablement nodes

[Andrea della Porta]

The pcie1 and pcie2 override nodes to enable the respective peripherals are
declared both in bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts and bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts, which
makes those declared in the former file redundant.

Drop those redundant nodes from the board devicetree.

Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
index a70a9b158df3..adad85e68f1b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
@@ -15,11 +15,3 @@
 &pcie2 {
 	#include "rp1-nexus.dtsi"
 };
-
-&pcie1 {
-	status = "okay";
-};
-
-&pcie2 {
-	status = "okay";
-};
-- 
2.35.3

Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: delete redundant pcie enablement nodes

[Florian Fainelli]

On 8/11/25 07:12, Andrea della Porta wrote:
> The pcie1 and pcie2 override nodes to enable the respective peripherals are
> declared both in bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts and bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts, which
> makes those declared in the former file redundant.
> 
> Drop those redundant nodes from the board devicetree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
> ---

Applied to 
https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/devicetree-arm64/next, thanks!
-- 
Florian

[PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: amend the comment about the role of BCM2712 board DTS

[Andrea della Porta]

Current board DTS for Raspberry Pi5 states that bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
should not be modified and all declarations should go in the overlay
board DTS instead (bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts).

There's a caveat though: there's currently no infrastructure to reliably
reference nodes that have not been declared yet, as is the case when
loading those nodes from a runtime overlay. For more details about
these limitations see [1] and follow-ups.

Change the comment to make it clear which DTS file will host specific
nodes, especially the RP1 related nodes which should be customized
outside the overlay DTS.

Link
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMEGJJ3=W8_R0xBvm8r+Q7iExZx8xPBHEWWGAT9ngpGWDSKCaQ@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
---
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
index adad85e68f1b..865f092608a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@
  * the RP1 driver to load the RP1 dtb overlay at runtime, while
  * bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts (this file) is the fully defined one (i.e. it
  * already contains RP1 node, so no overlay is loaded nor needed).
- * This file is not intended to be modified, nodes should be added
- * to the included bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts.
+ * This file is intended to host the override nodes for the RP1 peripherals,
+ * e.g. to declare the phy of the ethernet interface or the custom pin setup
+ * for several RP1 peripherals.
+ * This in turn is due to the fact that there's no current generic
+ * infrastructure to reference nodes (i.e. the nodes in rp1-common.dtsi) that
+ * are not yet defined in the DT since they are loaded at runtime via overlay.
+ * All other nodes that do not have anything to do with RP1 should be added
+ * to the included bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts instead.
  */
 
 /dts-v1/;
-- 
2.35.3

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: amend the comment about the role of BCM2712 board DTS

[Florian Fainelli]

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:12:35 +0200, Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com> wrote:
> Current board DTS for Raspberry Pi5 states that bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
> should not be modified and all declarations should go in the overlay
> board DTS instead (bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts).
> 
> There's a caveat though: there's currently no infrastructure to reliably
> reference nodes that have not been declared yet, as is the case when
> loading those nodes from a runtime overlay. For more details about
> these limitations see [1] and follow-ups.
> 
> Change the comment to make it clear which DTS file will host specific
> nodes, especially the RP1 related nodes which should be customized
> outside the overlay DTS.
> 
> Link
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMEGJJ3=W8_R0xBvm8r+Q7iExZx8xPBHEWWGAT9ngpGWDSKCaQ@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>
> ---

Applied to https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/devicetree-arm64/next, thanks!
--
Florian