[PATCHv0] arm: mvebu: add .dts file for Synology DS213j

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Oct 26 09:54:18 PDT 2014


On Sunday 26 October 2014 00:16:11 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Arnaud
> 
> Nice to see another device supported.
> 
> > - When I bought the NAS, it had an old Marvell bootloader. After install
> >   of latest DSM version, the u-boot was a new one w/ I had to change the
> >   'ranges' in the .dts to the ones below to have the kernel boot. I guess
> >   new DS213j hardware will be shipped with new u-boot version at some
> >   point and this will be fine; Otherwise, users will either have to
> >   upgrade their DSM or manually s/1f/d0/ in .dts.
> 
> Marvell have made a real mess here. Since there seems to be two
> different base addresses in use, i suggest you put a fat comment on
> the top of the .dts file about this issue. Give users a clue what to
> try if the kernel does not do anything at all.
> 

Maybe it's better to have multiple dtb files in this case.
It should be trivial to have one .dts file that just overrides the
one address.

	Arnd



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