[PATCH] dt-bindings: arm: bcm: add BCM53573 SoCs family binding

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 10:24:42 PDT 2023


On 10.07.2023 19:08, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 01:53:02PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>>
>> BCM53573 is a family derived from Northstar with some important
>> differences:
>> 1. Cortex-A9 replaced by Cortex-A7
>> 2. XHCI controller dropped
>> 3. Two Ethernet interfaces removed
>> 4. Two 802.11ac cores embedded
>>
>> Linux already contains DTS files for some on those devices so add a
>> proper binding for it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>> ---
>>   .../bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml       | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..6e502d718518
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml
>> @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> 
> How come this is not dual licensed?

Somehow I got inspired by other Broadocm SoCs here. I'll relicense it though.

FWIW:
$ grep "SPDX-License-Identifier" Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/*.yaml
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/bcm2835.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm11351.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm21664.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm23550.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcmbca.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,cygnus.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,hr2.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,ns2.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,nsp.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,stingray.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,vulcan-soc.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware.yaml:# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0


>> +%YAML 1.2
>> +---
>> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm53573.yaml#
>> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
>> +
>> +title: Broadcom BCM53573 SoCs family
> 
> Title seems a little odd given the description.
> "Broadcom Northstar derived Wi-Fi SoCs"?

Some team at Broadcom took Northstar family design, added their changes
and they reference those SoCs as BCM53573 family. So I thought I should
just stick with the name they chose.


> Otherwise,
> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>



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