[PATCH] arm64: dts: rockchip: add dts for Radxa ROCK Pi E v3.0

FUKAUMI Naoki naoki at radxa.com
Sun Jun 23 01:18:58 PDT 2024


Hi,

thank you very much for your comment!

On 6/23/24 17:07, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/06/2024 09:53, FUKAUMI Naoki wrote:
>> Radxa ROCK Pi E v3.0 has DDR4 SDRAM instead of DDR3 SDRAM.
>>
>> for Linux, this change doesn't make any difference from a device tree
>> POV. but, for bootloader (U-Boot TPL), it makes a difference.
> 
> What difference?

U-Boot TPL initialize DDR SDRAM.

https://github.com/RadxaNaoki/u-boot/commit/16d823eb95fe311c82a8ebb31570b59b1c59c43b#diff-03ce6c241f5db74ae87d4d8654bfef5eeb5bc42a9f1ff3cc828b70b3b2ac51d2R4
https://github.com/RadxaNaoki/u-boot/commit/16d823eb95fe311c82a8ebb31570b59b1c59c43b#diff-31b80303774e7c10b527fb2dbc704b82e6c5ccdc6d53dd4f65861309ce0e7413R4

there is 1 letter difference, ddr"3" and ddr"4".

>> bootloader needs a separeted dts for v3, so I add new dts for it.
>> dtb can be shared between v3 and prior, so I don't touch Makefile.
> 
> I don't understand. If you have the same DTB then you do not need second
> DTS.

2nd dts is for bootloader. it's not needed for Linux.

but latest U-Boot uses upstream device tree for some targets.

> This change really lacks proper explanation or is just unnecessary. If
> change is proven as necessary, then you also miss compatible and model.

sorry, I should write proper explanation.

Best regards,

--
FUKAUMI Naoki
Radxa Computer (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
> 
> 



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