[PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: add support for OpenBlocks A7 platform

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Oct 31 09:20:31 EDT 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:54:42PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On 31/10/2013 13:50, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:21:23AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >> Dear Gregory CLEMENT,
> >>
> >> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:17:43 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Strange. 'make dtbs' was working here. What was wrong exactly? Just
> >>>> that the unit address (@90000) didn't match the starting address
> >>>> 0x1c0000 ?
> >>>
> >>> The unit address has no special meaning for the device tree it's just a
> >>> way to give a unique name to a node right?
> >>
> >> Yes, that's also my understanding.
> > 
> > Correct, that's not what caused the error.
> > 
> >>> So in this case it is not really a problem, but it's just nicer for the
> >>> coherency of the information in the dt to have the unit address which match
> >>> the starting address.
> >>
> >> Indeed, it's much better if they match (shame on me for the silly
> >> copy/paste), but having then *not* matching should not cause any DTC
> >> error, I believe.
> >>
> >>> I also do a make dtbs ans I didn't get any errors:
> >>> $ make dtbs
> >>>  [...]
> >>>   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a6.dtb
> >>>   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dtb
> >>
> >> Same here.
> > 
> > With Thomas' original patch (on top of mvebu/dt, based on v3.12-rc1):
> 
> On my side I tested the patch on top on v3.12-rc7. So the difference should
> be there.

Ok, I get no warnings when I rebase the original patch onto v3.12-rc7.

Since Thomas is ok with my version, I'm going to send it up since it
doesn't generate warnings.  There's no point merging in v3.12-rc7 just
to silence a few warnings.

thx,

Jason.

> > $ make kirkwood_defconfig
> > $ make dtbs
> > ...
> >   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a6.dtb
> >   DTC     arch/arm/boot/dts/kirkwood-openblocks_a7.dtb
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 0 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 90000 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at d4000 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at f4000 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 4f4000 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (reg_format): "reg" property in /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 2214000 has invalid length (8 bytes) (#address-cells == 2, #size-cells == 1)
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 0
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 0
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 90000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 90000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at d4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at d4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at f4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at f4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 4f4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 4f4000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #address-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 2214000
> > Warning (avoid_default_addr_size): Relying on default #size-cells value for /ocp at f1000000/nand at 3000000/partition at 2214000



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