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

Gregor Herburger gregor.herburger at linutronix.de
Tue May 5 08:07:19 PDT 2026


On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 05/05/2026 11:21, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> Heh, and you ignored completely our final comments in last discussion.

Oh. I actually had it in my first draft, but then got schema warnings and
messed it up somehow. Sorry for the noise. Will change it to the fallback in the
next version. Will send a new version with the suggestions from Sashiko.

Regards
-- 
Gregor Herburger



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