[PATCH v2 2/9] dt-bindings: riscv: microchip: document the aries m100pfsevp

[Conor.Dooley at microchip.com]

On 30/08/2022 18:47, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 30/08/2022 20:35, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
>> On 30/08/2022 18:30, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
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>>> On 30/08/2022 19:59, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
>>>>>> w dts were
>>>>>> needed so that the gpio-hog could be set correctly. Out of curiosity, I can
>>>>>> have the same compatible in multiple devicetrees right? In that case, it
>>>>>> would just be "aries,m100pfsevp" here and I could put that in both?
>>>>>> Would make things easier..
>>>>>
>>>>> Depends, but I would say for this case rather not. The compatible should
>>>>> identify the board. If the boards are different, one compatible should
>>>>> not identify both of them. Imagine U-Boot (or something else) trying to
>>>>> match the DTS.
>>>>
>>>> It is the same board though, the way the bootloader works is that if it
>>>> detects an SD-card it will use that to boot from, and if not will fall back
>>>> to the emmc.
>>>
>>> Wait, I might miss that part. So this is exactly the same hardware with
>>> the same SoM/SoC, same eMMC and SD card, except that one has plugged
>>> this SD card (as it is hot-pluggable)?
> 
> Then two thoughts:
> 1. It is indeed one compatible because it is exactly the same hardware
> (I don't consider plugged SD card as part of it, just like plugged USB).

Cool.

> 
> 2. Then I don't think you should have two boards in the kernel. It's
> fine if bootloaders have two of them or to store an overlay in the
> kernel or somewhere. But two boards for the same board differing by
> hot-plug setup is not for Linux kernel.

Fine by me too. Easy enough to sort that out in u-boot or w/e (and do
whatever suits in a vendor tree).

Thanks Krzysztof :)