[PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: Add new boards to bcm4708 DT bindings

Jon Mason jonmason at broadcom.com
Wed Oct 14 08:34:21 PDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:37:49PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 13/10/15 14:40, Jon Mason wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 04:42:04PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> >> On 10/03/2015 12:22 AM, Jon Mason wrote:
> >>> Add the 4708, 4709, and 953012k SVKs to the the documentation for the
> >>> Broadcom Northstar device tree bindings.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jonmason at broadcom.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.txt | 7 +++++++
> >>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.txt
> >>> index 6b0f49f..bdf4c06 100644
> >>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.txt
> >>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm/brcm,bcm4708.txt
> >>
> >> What should be documented in this file? This is more a question to the
> >> guys more familiar with arm in Linux. Currently the Linux kernel only
> >> supports brcm,bcm4708 and all goes back to that one.
> > 
> > I was under the impression that all boards should be added to these
> > files.  We have been doing so for Cygnus and NSP.
> 
> Tracking exactly which boards are supported by the brcm,bcm4708
> compatible string might be tedious, I tend to agree with just listing
> the supported SoCs, and leaving the specific board compatibles to the
> individual DTS files instead.

Ok, I'll simply add entries for NS and 4709 to this.

Thanks,
Jon 

> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jon
> > 
> >>
> >>> @@ -5,4 +5,11 @@ Boards with the BCM4708 SoC shall have the following properties:
> >>>  
> >>>  Required root node property:
> >>>  
> >>> +bcm94709
> >>>  compatible = "brcm,bcm4708";
> >>> +
> >>> +bcm94709
> >>> +compatible = "brcm,bcm4709", "brcm,bcm4708";
> >>> +
> >>> +bcm953012k
> >>> +compatible = "brcm,bcm5301k", "brcm,bcm4708";
> >>>
> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Florian



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