[RFC PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: Make preparations for per-RK3588-variant OPPs

Dragan Simic dsimic at manjaro.org
Tue Jun 4 13:48:30 PDT 2024


Hello Alexey,

On 2024-05-30 21:31, Dragan Simic wrote:
> I'm sorry for my delayed response, had some "IRL stuff" to take care 
> of.

[...]

> On 2024-05-29 16:05, Alexey Charkov wrote:
>> The problem I have with -common is that there are several layers of
>> "common" even among just the three of these chip revisions, and a
>> clear inheritance hierarchy between them (i.e. RK3588j and RK3588 also
>> have a sizeable chunk of their IP blocks that is "common" between
>> these two variants, in addition to those shared among all three
>> variants)
> 
> Hmm, I see, that's a rather valid concern.  How about using "-base"
> for what I called "-common", and "-extra" for what I called "-fullfat",
> for the lack of a better term?  Using "-extra" takes inspiration from
> the way Linux distribution package repositories are commonly named, so
> it should be rather familiar to nearly everyone.
> 
> Also, "-base" and "-extra" are rather short, so their shortness would
> also make them stand out in the directory listing as something that 
> isn't
> just another board .dts or .dtsi file, which can only help.

[...]

Since there were no complaints, I'll move forward with sending a "real"
patch that uses "-base" and "-extra".



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