[PATCH 0/2] arm*/dts: Enable symbols for rpi device trees

[Cristian.Birsan at microchip.com]

Hi Uwe, All,

On 5/30/23 20:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> based on an earlier submission by Aurelien Jarno, I rebased and slightly
> simplified the patches.
> 
> There was some related irc conversion in #armlinux. Quoting the relevant
> parts:
> 
> 1685078851< ukleinek> arnd, [florian]: Who would pick up https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220410225940.135744-1-aurelien@aurel32.net ?
> 1685078920< ukleinek> arnd, [florian]: If there is an agreement in general that this is a good idea, I can coordinate with Aurelien that for arm64 there is a v2 with the simpler approach I pointed out.
> 1685083481< arnd> ukleinek: I have no objections to this, if [florian] wants to pick it up and send me for 6.5.
> 1685083809< arnd> robher: any comments on this one?
> 1685466520 < [florian]> ukleinek: I was hoping we would get an Ack for robher before picking it up in the brcm soc tree, don't want to ruffle any feathers unnecessarily
> 
> So it seems to start a beneficial chain reaction, only Rob's Ack is
> needed.
> 
> As these two changes would greatly simplify the application of dtbos for
> rpi hats, I look forward to Rob agreeing to them.

I'm interested in enabling this feature too. We used device tree overlays for Microchip AT91 boards for some time.

I can prepare a similar patch to enable them upstream.

> 
> Best regards
> Uwe

Regards,
Cristi


> 
> Aurelien Jarno (2):
>    arm64: dts: broadcom: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi
>      devices
>    arm: dts: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi devices
> 
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile            | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/Makefile |  4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)
> 
> base-commit: ac9a78681b921877518763ba0e89202254349d1b