arm: dts: update for 4.2-rcx

santosh shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
Thu Jul 16 09:55:14 PDT 2015


On 7/16/2015 9:50 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> On 07/16/2015 12:40 PM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
>> On 7/16/2015 7:53 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>> Santosh,
>>>
>>> Do you have my patch for https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/15/879 ?
>>> This one should be applied to v4.2-rc kernel with priority.
>>> Please review and do the needful.
>>>
>> Yes I have it for next merge window. It won't be qualified as a
>> fix rather more of enhancement. Do you have also patches for
>> board DTS files which enables PCIE. I can queue them together
>> for next merge window.
> No this is a fix for v4.2-rc. PCIe driver is not complete without having
> a SerDes driver. Currently the version we send is not accepted since the
> config blobs are used. On K2E EVM, this causes problem since the EVM has
> Marvell SATA controller present and with default values in the SerDes
> register, it seems to pass the PCIe link check, but causes issues since
> the configuration is not correct. The manifestation is that when EVM is
> booted with NFS rootfs, the boot hangs. We can't enable PCIe on this EVM
> since to work, SerDes driver has to be present as well. So by default,
> the PCIe DT binding should be disabled in SoC specific DTS. It can be
> enabled in the board specific DTS when the SerDes device driver is also
> present. We plan to upstream a common SerDes driver soon. But at this
> point this has to be disabled by default.
>
Please add this information and respin the patch. Thanks for explaining
it.

> I can provide more details if needed in the patch commit description,
> but I though it is not correct to keep the PCIe DT bindings to be
> enabled in the SoC specific DTS to begin with. So this is a fix for
> v4.2-rc.
>
Please do. It wasn't clear from the patch description. With above added
description its a legitimate fix which I can queue it up for rc's.

Regards,
Santosh



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