[PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: dts: broadcom: bcm2712: add bcm2712-firmware compatible

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Tue May 5 02:21:21 PDT 2026


On 05/05/2026 09:25, Gregor Herburger wrote:
> The Raspberry Pi 5 firmware exposes additional features. Update the
> compatible to reflect these differences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregor Herburger <gregor.herburger at linutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b-base.dtsi | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b-base.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b-base.dtsi
> index b7a6bc34ae1a..7283078fd441 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b-base.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-5-b-base.dtsi
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ power_button: power-button {
>  
>  	firmware {
>  		firmware: rpi-firmware {
> -			compatible = "raspberrypi,bcm2835-firmware", "simple-mfd";
> +			compatible = "raspberrypi,bcm2712-firmware", "simple-mfd";

This breaks users without mentioning and without proper reason.
"Additional features" is not a reason to break users. At least not
without explaining the actual impact, but even with the impact IMO this
is just wrong.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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