[PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri Mar 13 03:52:07 PDT 2015


> +/ {
> +	chosen {
> +		stdout-path = &blsp1_uart2;
> +	};

It would be good if we had the configuration too (see
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt), as that avoids any
reliance on kernel defaults.

You can refer to an alias, so this could be:

aliases {
	serial0 = &blsp1_uart2;
};

chosen {
	stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
};

...assuming that 115200n8 is correct for your UART, of course.


[...]

> +#include "skeleton.dtsi"

I'd like to get rid of skeleton.dtsi; it causes more problems than it
solves (the address/size cells mismatch is confusing and hidden, people
forget to fill in memory nodes appropriately, etc).

Please remove this include and place appropriate #address-cells and #size-cells here.

I'd strongly recommend going with /#size-cells = <2>; it' will save on a
lot of pain if you need to add PCIe or something with large ranges
later. If things all fall in 4GB within the SoC then have
/soc/#size=cells = <1> and an appropriate /soc/ranges property.

I note this DT doesn't have any memory nodes. Is that an accident or
does the loader fill that in?

If the latter, have an empty node with a comment to that effect.

Mark.



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