Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm: dts: am335x-boneblack: Extract common config

[Paul Barker <paul.barker@sancloud.com>]

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On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:27:55 +0000
Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:31:56AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:05:46 +0100
> > Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM Paul Barker
> > > <paul.barker@sancloud.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Configuration which is shared between the BeagleBone Black and
> > > > derivative boards like the Sancloud BeagleBone Enhanced (BBE) is
> > > > moved to a common dtsi file to prevent duplication.  
> > > 
> > > Are these being sent upstream to the linux kernel?
> > 
> > The upstream kernel already has am335x-boneblack-common.dtsi and
> > am335x-sancloud-bbe.dts files, since 2016 and 2018 respectively. As
> > these files fell out of sync over 4 years ago I've assumed there is no
> > need to keep them in sync. We could try to resync things but that would
> > lead to an unnecessary risk of breakage, I don't have every BeagleBone
> > Black derivative board on hand to fully test such a resync.
> 
> Adding in Lokesh.  It would be really good to get as many of these files
> back in sync again as possible and then keep them in sync periodically.
> As I don't think there's been any breaking fixes in the dts files again,
> there shouldn't be any problems.
> 

Hi Tom,

As there's been no reply from Lokesh I'd like to move forward with
these updates if we can. I'm happy to resync the SanCloud dts files
plus what we include, I think that will also involve copying over at
least one more dt-bindings header as well.

I'll send an updated series shortly.

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker
Principal Software Engineer
SanCloud Ltd

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