From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 16:12:03 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/21] sunxi: dts: Add minimal dts files for board which lack a dts sofar In-Reply-To: <1430574524.15640.114.camel@hellion.org.uk> References: <1429883310-22441-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1429883310-22441-19-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1430019015.12403.77.camel@hellion.org.uk> <553CB67B.2080407@redhat.com> <1430574524.15640.114.camel@hellion.org.uk> Message-ID: <55477E33.6080502@redhat.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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