[PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: shmobile: lager: Add DT reference

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Jul 2 22:26:09 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 04:41:01PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Simon Horman
> <horms+renesas at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this short series adds DT reference to Lager.
> 
> Thanks for your work on this.
> 
> > The intention of this is to allow the board to be
> > brought up as much as possible using DT. And for
> > this to act as a basis for further DT coverage
> > of devices present on the Lager and its r8a7790 SoC.
> >
> >
> > This series differs from v2 in that it has been
> > rebased on top of reneas-next-20130701 and now makes use
> > of r8a7790_init_delay().
> >
> >
> > Simon Horman (2):
> >   ARM: shmobile: r8a7790:  Initialise clocks and SCIF in
> >     r8a7790_add_dt_devices()
> 
> At this point I'm inclined to say "no" to new DT reference using
> platform devices for SCIF. I believe we instead should really work on
> adding DT support to the SCIF driver and use DT for SCIF on more
> recent boards. Also, we probably don't want to enable clocks like
> that, instead we should tie in common clocks. That will take a little
> bit longer time though, so I wonder what is a good solution until
> then..

I guess we should just delay lager-reference until its dependencies are ready.

> >   ARM: shmobile: lager: Add DT reference
> 
> I think you want to update Makefile.boot to include the
> lager-reference board. Also, I believe that without SCIF and clocks
> the init_machine() and init_irq() callbacks can be left unset to make
> use of the default behaviour.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> / magnus
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