Re: [PATCH 0/2] Initial support for PXA1908 and samsung-coreprimevelte

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Duje Mihanović wrote:
> On Friday 27 December 2024 22:53:27 Central European Standard Time Tom Rini 
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 10:22:14PM +0100, Duje Mihanović wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > This series adds initial support for Marvell's PXA1908 ARM64 SoC and
> > > Samsung's Galaxy Core Prime VE LTE, a smartphone based on said SoC.
> > > 
> > > On this board, U-Boot is used as a secondary bootloader to work around
> > > certain quirks of the factory S-Boot.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Duje Mihanović <duje.mihanovic@skole.hr>
> > 
> > What is the status of getting these dtsi files upstream? Thanks.
> 
> They are the last component of PXA1908 support waiting to be merged, see 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241104-pxa1908-lkml-v13-0-e050609b8d6c@skole.hr/ 
> .
> 
> In case you're asking this to see whether the board could use OF_UPSTREAM, I 
> should note that the dtsi files in this set differ from the ones waiting to be 
> merged into Linux differ by being slimmed down, having different compatibles 
> in a few places (CPU and serial ports specifically) and the coreprimevelte dts 
> also has an extra property `pxa,rev-id` which the stock bootloader requires 
> for booting. Could all this be handled in a `pxa1908-samsung-coreprimevelte-u-
> boot.dtsi` and `pxa1908-u-boot.dtsi` once they are upstreamed?

Yes, this is about moving to OF_UPSTREAM. Strictly and only with respect
to things that we have to deal with due to other bootloaders can we deal
with problems like that in the -u-boot.dtsi file. Otherwise we need to
match compatibles, etc, with upstream. Thanks!

-- 
Tom

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