[GIT PULL 1/4] i.MX arm64 dts changes for v7.1
Frank Li
Frank.li at nxp.com
Sun Apr 5 18:31:49 PDT 2026
On Sat, Apr 04, 2026 at 04:34:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 10:14:37AM -0400, Frank Li wrote:
> > From: Frank.Li at nxp.com
> >
> > The following changes since commit 6de23f81a5e08be8fbf5e8d7e9febc72a5b5f27f:
> >
> > Linux 7.0-rc1 (2026-02-22 13:18:59 -0800)
> >
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frank.li/linux.git tags/imx-dt64-7.1
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 825b8c7e1d2918d89eb378b761530d1e51dba82e:
> >
> > arm64: dts: imx8qxp-mek: switch Type-C connector power-role to dual (2026-03-27 09:53:32 -0400)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > i.MX arm64 device tree changes for 7.1:
> >
> > - New Board Support
> > S32N79-RDB, Variscite DART-MX95, DART-MX91 with Sonata carrier boards,
> > Verdin iMX95 with multiple carrier boards (Yavia, Mallow, Ivy, Dahlia)
> > TQMa93xx/MBa93xxLA-MINI, SolidRun i.MX8MP HummingBoard IIoT,
> > SolidRun i.MX8MM SOM and EVB, SolidRun SolidSense-N8 board
> > Ka-Ro Electronics tx8m-1610 COM, GOcontroll Moduline IV and Moduline Mini,
> > NXP FRDM-IMX91S board, i.MX93 Wireless EVK board with Wireless SiP,
> > NXP i.MX8MP audio board v2.
>
> You do not have any bindings for these.
It is in imx/bindings branch.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/commit/?h=soc/drivers&id=e54390aae6887151ff67526af45382beb889f99a
>
> I found them in driver bindings (!!!) pull request so completely
> different branch. This is wrong. Bindings come with the user. Who is the
> user of board bindings? Not a driver, but exactly this pull request.
I followed previous guo shawn's method. Should binding's patch be in this
pull request?
I can do that next time, some binding already in soc tree, how to fix it
this time?
>
> This makes this branch full of warnings which is completely unnecessary.
> Plus this will spawn multiple checkpatch warnings if tested. It must
> have also cause warnings in your case, so probably you do not test your
> tree enough.
Some binding doc is not coming with soc driver tree, I tested this branch
by merge linux-next/master. No warning found. I will enhance my script to
run checkpatch. I focus on check DTB_warnings.
Frank
>
> ...
>
> > Marco Felsch (1):
> > arm64: dts: imx93: Add parallel display output nodes
> >
> > Martin Schmiedel (2):
> > arm64: dts: freescale: add initial device tree for TQMa93xx/MBa93xxLA-MINI
> > arm64: dts: freescale: imx93-tqma9352-mba93xxla-mini: Add WLAN/BT overlay
> >
> > Maud Spierings (4):
> > arm64: dts: imx8mm: Add pinctrl config definitions
> > arm64: dts: freescale: add Ka-Ro Electronics tx8m-1610 COM
> > arm64: dts: freescale: Add the GOcontroll Moduline IV
> > arm64: dts: freescale: Add the GOcontroll Moduline Mini
> >
> > Nora Schiffer (1):
> > arm64: dts: freescale: imx8mp-tqma8mpql-mba8mp-ras314: fix UART1 RTS/CTS muxing
> >
> > Peng Fan (4):
> > arm64: dts: imx94: Add V2X/ELE mailbox nodes
> > arm64: dts: imx94: Add SCMI sensor/lmm/cpu nodes
> > arm64: dts: imx943-evk: Add nxp,ctrl-ids for scmi_misc
> > arm64: dts: imx943-evk: Add pf09/53 thermal zone
> >
> > Primoz Fiser (1):
> > arm64: dts: freescale: imx93-phy{core,board}: Add i2c bus recovery
> >
> > Ranjani Vaidyanathan (1):
> > arm64: dts: imx94: Update pin headers
> >
> > Rob Herring (Arm) (1):
> > arm64: dts: freescale: imx93: Add Ethos-U65 NPU and SRAM nodes
> >
> > Shengjiu Wang (7):
> > arm64: dts: imx8mm-evk: correct the spdif compatible string
>
> This breaks users of DTS and explains nothing about impact or why this
> should be changed (corrected). It should not pass review of two people.
> Also I could not find explanation of the impact in the tag message.
>
> Device was apparently working fine, so it should have been made
> compatible. I know that 10 years ago we did not care that much about
> DTS users, but that changes for a few years already.
>
> I am merging this but next time I would postpone the pull till some
> clarifications are provided. Please pay attention to OF_UPSTREAM and
> other users impact next time.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
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