[PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the PlatHome OpenBlocks AX3 board

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Tue Nov 27 08:00:35 EST 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:18:47 +0100, Hector Oron wrote:
> 
> > I got an ax3/2 device, I would not mind to test any changes? Are you
> > aware of which changes should I apply to dtsi file to work on ax3-2
> > device?
> 
> If I'm correct, the differences between AX-2 and AX3-4 is:
> 
>  * AX3-2 has two Ethernet interfaces, while AX3-4 has four Ethernet
>    interfaces
> 
>  * AX3-4 is in standard mounted with a 2 GB additional DRAM in a
>    SO-DIMM slot, while the AX3-2 is not. However, it is not clear if
>    the SO-DIMM slot is present or not on the AX3-2 (could you confirm
>    this?).
> 
>  * AX3-2 does not have a mini PCIe slot, while AX3-4 has one.
> 
> So I guess you could create a separate armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-2.dts
> file to support this new board. Maybe at some point it will make sense
> to have a common armada-xp-openblocks-ax3.dtsi that both board .dts
> includes.

Adding plathome to the email list to see if they can offer any
concrete answers.

thx,

Jason.



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