[PATCH v2] ARM64: dts: amlogic: Add basic support for Amlogic S905X

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Mon Aug 29 10:50:18 PDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com> wrote:
> Carlo Caione <carlo at caione.org> writes:
>
>> From: Carlo Caione <carlo at endlessm.com>
>>
>> This patch introduces the basic support for the Amlogic S905X (Meson
>> GXL) and for the Amlogic evaluation board P212.
>> No documentation has been released yet for this SoC, so for now only the
>> bare minimum has been added in the DT.
>>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber at suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <carlo at endlessm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Hey Kevin,
>> Can you take this one?
>>
>> Changelog:
>> v2:
>>   - Added acked-by and reviewed-by
>>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/amlogic.txt |   5 +
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/Makefile              |   1 +
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-p212.dts    |  70 +++++++++
>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl.dtsi        | 179 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> It seems to me that meson-gxl.dtsi is almost identicial to
> meson-gxbb.dtsi.  I think we should create another .dtsi for all the
> common parts.  Something like meson-gx-common.dtsi, which is included
> by meson-gxbb.dtsi and meson-gxl.dtsi
>
> Also, the GXL family has both the S905x and S905D SoCs, so we may need
> meson-gxl-s905x.dtsi and meson-gxl-s905d.dtsi but I'm not sure of the
> full set of differences between those, so we can save that for later.
>
> But, I do think the board files should probably have the SoC name.  So
> they would look something like: meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dts (which you
> have) and meson-gxl-s905d-p230.dts (which I have.)

Oops, I should've read a bit more of my backlog before responding
here.  I see Neil has already done this building on your patch.

Kevin (still catching up on post-holiday mails)



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