[U-Boot] [PATCH 18/21] sunxi: dts: Add minimal dts files for board which lack a dts sofar

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 11:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 26-04-15 05:30, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 15:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> u-boot has support for a number of boards for which a dts file still needs
> >> to be written, add minimal dts files for these boards so that we can switch
> >> them over to device-model / fdt.
> >
> > Can these minimal things not be submitted to mainline regardless? I mean
> > they are factually accurate descriptions of the h/w so far as they go,
> > so why not?
> 
> These are not tested on the actual boards,

Not even with u-boot?

Can we CC the people listed in board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS as responsible
for the relevant boards and get them tested?

> and Maxime will not take untested dts patches.

I presume/hope here you mean "completely untested" as opposed to "not
tested with Linux"? (Otherwise I'm going to have a little hissy fit on
some other list ;-))

> 
> >> + * [...] for u-boot only
> >
> > These aren't really "for u-boot only", they are still generic facts
> > about the board, just perhaps a bit incomplete.
> 
> They lack mmc controller info for one, so no rootfs support on many
> boards, iow not really useful. I'm afraid that we will just have
> to live with these ones, and not accept any new boards unless they
> come with a proper dts (which has been submitted upstream).
> 
> Hopefully over time these will get a proper dts too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
>