[PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: aliase sdhci as mmc0 for rk3566 box demo

Andy Yan andyshrk at 163.com
Thu Mar 20 05:56:04 PDT 2025


Hi Heiko,

At 2024-12-22 14:55:09, "Andy Yan" <andyshrk at 163.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Heiko,
>At 2024-12-21 20:55:02, "Heiko Stübner" <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
>>Hi Andy,
>>
>>Am Samstag, 21. Dezember 2024, 11:49:07 CET schrieb Andy Yan:
>>> From: Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com>
>>> 
>>> Follow most others rk356x based boards, and u-boot only use mmc0/1
>>> as mmc boot targets, so aliase sdhci as mmc0.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com>
>>> ---
>>> 
>>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-box-demo.dts | 6 +++---
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-box-demo.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-box-demo.dts
>>> index 41b4cd5a4220..7d0eedf1bd0d 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-box-demo.dts
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3566-box-demo.dts
>>> @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ / {
>>>  
>>>  	aliases {
>>>  		ethernet0 = &gmac1;
>>> -		mmc0 = &sdmmc0;
>>> -		mmc1 = &sdmmc1;
>>> -		mmc2 = &sdhci;
>>> +		mmc0 = &sdhci;
>>> +		mmc1 = &sdmmc0;
>>> +		mmc2 = &sdmmc1;
>>
>>sorry, but that won't be possible :-( .
>>
>>The original aliases for the mmc order were added over 2 years ago
>>(november 2022) and became part of the ABI then.
>
>Yes,  the patch for this board was submitted by me.
>This is a tv box  evaluation demo board that we use internally,and it is not sold to the public.
>I submitted it to the mainline because it is small, compact and streamlined, it easy for me
>to use it  test the mainline vop2 driver. 
>I think i am currently the only user who will use this board run the mainline kernel.
>I'm not sure if we can let it go.


So far, no one has come forward to claim that they are using this board.
Actually, as I mentioned before, currently, it is only me who is using this
board to do some DRM-related tests. Could you consider merging it? 
If later on someone really comes forward and claims that this modification
has affected it, we can still revert this patch.

>
>
>>
>>Imagine someone using that board with a rootfs=/dev/mmcblk2p1 part
>>in the commandline to mount the old sdhci-part1 as rootfs, but now
>>you reorder the controllers, so so that commandline would try to access
>>sdmmc1, so their system won't boot anymore after just a simple kernel
>>update.
>>
>>Breaking people's setup is one of those big no-go-s in the kernel, so
>>sadly you'll need to live with the existing order.
>>
>>
>>Heiko
>>
>>


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