[PATCH v3 07/10] riscv: boot: dts: r9a07g043: Add placeholder nodes

[Conor Dooley]

On 15/09/2022 23:26, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Conor,
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10:36 PM <Conor.Dooley at microchip.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/09/2022 19:15, Prabhakar wrote:
>>> riscv: boot: dts: r9a07g043: Add placeholder nodes
>>
>> nit: s/boot//
>>
> Will fix that.
> 
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>>> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj at bp.renesas.com>
>>>
>>> Add empty placeholder nodes to RZ/Five (R9A07G043) SoC DTSI.
>>
>> Can you explain why do you need placeholder nodes for this and
>> cannot just directly include the other dtsis?
>>
> Since the RZ/G2UL SoC is ARM64 where it has a GIC and on RZ/Five SoC
> we have PLIC for interrupts. Also the interrupt numbering for RZ/Five
> SoC differs from RZ/G2UL SoC hence we are not directly using the
> RZ/G2UL SoC DTSI [0].
> 
> [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g043.dtsi?h=v6.0-rc5
> 
> For the RZ/Five SMARC EVK I am re-using the below files [1] (SoM) and
> [2] (Carrier board) as the RZ/Five SMARC EVK is pin compatible.  Since
> I am re-using these when trying to compile the RZ/Five DTB I get
> compilation errors since the nodes dont exist (and there is no way
> currently we can delete the node reference when the actual node itself
> isn't present) hence these place holders.
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzg2ul-smarc-som.dtsi?h=v6.0-rc5
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzg2ul-smarc.dtsi?h=v6.0-rc5


If this method is acceptable to Geert, this explanation 100% needs to
go into the commit message.

Thanks,
Conor.