[RFC] arm64: dts: allwinner: a64: Add overlay for Realtek
Icenowy Zheng
uwu at icenowy.me
Sun Apr 20 20:43:27 PDT 2025
在 2025-04-19星期六的 20:08 +0200,Dragan Simic写道:
> Hello Peter,
>
> On 2025-04-19 18:07, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Add overlay for the Pine64 Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi
> > module that works on the Pine64/64+/SoPine devices.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> >
> > I've looked at overlays for other vendors, such as available
> > for some of the Rockchip devices, and I believe I have this
> > mostly correct but would like some feedback both on if I have
> > everything needed for Allwinner devices, but also what's needed
> > to be able to use a single overlay across more than one device.
> >
> > This is dependent on the following [1] patch series.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > [1]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20250419160051.677485-3-pbrobinson@gmail.com/t/#u
> >
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/Makefile | 6 ++++
> > .../allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso | 30
> > +++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644
> > arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/Makefile
> > b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/Makefile
> > index 00bed412ee31..be991f8d8110 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/Makefile
> > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) +=
> > sun50i-a64-olinuxino-emmc.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-orangepi-win.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pine64-lts.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb
> > sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb
> > +dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pinebook.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.0.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.1.dtb
> > @@ -52,3 +53,8 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) +=
> > sun50i-h700-anbernic-rg35xx-2024.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-h700-anbernic-rg35xx-h.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-h700-anbernic-rg35xx-plus.dtb
> > dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sun50i-h700-anbernic-rg35xx-sp.dtb
> > +
> > +# Overlays
> > +sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek-dtbs := sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb
> > sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtbo
> > +sun50i-a64-pine64-lts-realtek-dtbs := sun50i-a64-pine64-lts.dtb
> > sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtbo
> > +sun50i-a64-pine64-plus-realtek-dtbs := sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb
> > sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtbo
>
> Thanks for the patch, having this DT overlay makes perfectly
> sense to me. The only possible issues may arise from the
> resulting size increase of the compiled .dtb files, caused by
> the implicit inclusion of symbols.
>
> However, please see an earlier linux-rockchip thread [2] that
> shows the desired layout of the additions to the Makefile, which
> was determined through a few rounds of discussion.
>
> Finally, I think we should choose a slightly better name for the
> DT overlay, instead of "sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso", in which
> "-realtek" seems a bit to vague. Perhaps "-wifi-bt-addon" as the
> filename suffix would fit better, and it's virtually guaranteed
> that there will be no new version of that add-on board, so there
> should be no potential for name clashing.
Yes. In fact I think Pine64 messed up with pinouts of Wi-Fi modules and
only the RTL8723BS module works with Pine A64. (The Broadcom/Ampak ones
only work with Rockchip boards, as what I assumed.)
>
> As a minor suggestion, the patch subject should also be tweaked
> a bit, because "Realtek" is also a bit too vague there.
>
> [2]
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/20250226140942.3825223-4-heiko@sntech.de/
>
> > diff --git
> > a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso
> > b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..51b57a46e23f
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-realtek.dtso
> > @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
> > +// Copyright (c) 2025 Peter Robinson
> > +
> > +/dts-v1/;
> > +/plugin/;
> > +
> > +#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> > +#include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
> > +
> > +&mmc1 {
> > + status = "okay";
> > +
> > + rtl8723bs: wifi at 1 {
> > + reg = <1>;
> > + interrupt-parent = <&r_pio>;
> > + interrupts = <0 3 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>; /* PL3 */
> > + interrupt-names = "host-wake";
> > + };
> > +};
> > +
> > +&uart1 {
> > + status = "okay";
> > +
> > + bluetooth {
> > + compatible = "realtek,rtl8723bs-bt";
> > + device-wake-gpios = <&r_pio 0 6 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> > /* PL6 */
> > + enable-gpios = <&r_pio 0 4 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /*
> > PL4 */
> > + host-wake-gpios = <&r_pio 0 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>; /*
> > PL5 */
> > + };
> > +};
>
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