[PATCH] ARM: dts: sun8i: Add dts file for inet86dz board

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 22-06-16 08:40, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:35:15AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On 13-06-16 05:16, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> The inet86dz board is a board used in 7" tablets from various oems.
>>>>>
>>>>> These tablets are a23 based 7" tablets featuring a 1024x600 LCD,
>>>>> 512MB RAM, 4G NAND, rtl8188etv usb wifi, gsl1680 touchschreen,
>>>>> micro-sd slot, 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro-usb otg connector
>>>>> which doubles as charging port.
>>>>
>>>> This seems awfully similar to the sun8i-a23-q8-tablet, any reason
>>>> not to include that or sun8i-q8-common.dtsi?
>>>
>>> So to answer this both for this board and for the Polaroid MID2407PXE03
>>> one, these are not q8 tablets, they are not using the standard q8 casing
>>> at least. So using q8 for them would seem to be a bit confusing to users
>>> and figuring out how to do proper autodetect is already hard enough without
>>> throwing these into the mix too.
>>>
>>> OTOH you are right that there is a lot of code duplication here. Since I
>>> plan to start working on touchscreen autodetect soon-ish, let me see how
>>> that goes first.
>>
>> For reference, I'm not really against having similar boards having
>> similar-yet-duplicated DT. This is just data, and sometimes trying to
>> factorise things also make it less trivial and easy to understand.
>
> It seems most if not all Allwinner based tablets use the reference design
> Allwinner provides. The design specifies how components are connected,
> what models could be used, etc.. Maybe we could rename sun*i-q8-common to
> sun*i-reference-design and use that? We'd still have board.dts files
> including it, and providing the board name.

Ok, so as the thread I started on this shows, doing auto-detect is actually
more or less impossible when it comes to the touchscreens, so I do believe
that having separate dts files for clearly identifiable non q8 boards is
best.

I do like the idea of sharing some more stuff though, I'll do a v2 of
the Polaroid MID2407PXE03 and inet86dz dts additions based on first
introducing a sun8i-reference-design-tablet.dtsi which will take most
of the content currently in sun8i-q8-common.dtsi

Regards,

Hans