[GIT PULL] ARM: BCM5301X: DT changes for v3.19

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Thu Nov 20 13:17:11 PST 2014


On 11/20/2014 10:38 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2014, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>> ARM: BCM5301X: Add some more devices to device tree
>>
>> The most important part is adding the axi bus to the SoC dtsi file,
>> this is the main bus on the SoC.
>>
>> These patches were all send to the arm list and I haven't got any
>> negative responses.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Hauke Mehrtens (1):
>>       ARM: BCM5301X: activate early printk for Netgear R6250
>>
>> Rafał Miłecki (2):
>>       ARM: BCM5301X: Add Broadcom's bus-axi to the DTS file
>>       ARM: BCM5301X: Add LEDs for Netgear R6250 V1
>>
> 
> Same comments as for the SoC changes. Note that in general, enabling
> 'earlyprintk' in the dts is a bad idea because it breaks booting a
> kernel that has an incompatible debug_ll setting enabled, I'd rather
> see you drop that patch.

Ok, I will drop that patch and resend a pull request, this time based on
-rc1.

> Starting with 3.19, the shiny new 'earlycon' support should work, so
> I'd prefer you to set the 'stdout-path' property in the /chosen
> node. Unfortunately enabling earlycon at the command line is still
> broken on 3.18-rc because the fixmap patches are only in Russell's
> 'ronx-next' branch. We could think about pulling that into arm-soc
> if we want to start enabling earlycon drivers.

Nice, I will try this feature.

Hauke





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