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

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 05/02/2015 03:48 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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?

I must admit that they are not even tested with u-boot.

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

That is a good idea, I will mail them to test things once the dust has settled
a bit (wrt the merge window) and I'll also ask them to write full dts files
for the upstream kernel.

>> 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 ;-))

Yes I mean completely untested :)

>
>>
>>>> + * [...] 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
>>
>
>

Regards,

Hans