[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: add device tree for the RealView EB Rev D

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu Sep 8 03:00:23 PDT 2016


On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 11:30:43 AM CEST Linus Walleij wrote:
>> @@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ dtb-$(CONFIG_ARCH_REALVIEW) += \
>>         arm-realview-pb1176.dtb \
>>         arm-realview-pb11mp.dtb \
>>         arm-realview-eb.dtb \
>> +       arm-realview-eb-revd.dtb \
>>         arm-realview-eb-11mp.dtb \
>>         arm-realview-eb-11mp-revb.dtb \
>>         arm-realview-eb-a9mp.dtb \
>
> Is the ethernet device on the baseboard or the core tile?

It's on the baseboard.

> My understanding is that you have a baseboard which comes in
> different revisions and a set of CPU modules (arm9, arm1136,
> arm1176, arm11mp, cortex-a9, ...) that can be freely combined,
> so if the ethernet device is on the baseboard, we also need revd
> variants for 11mp and a9mp.

Yeah... you're right.

> The arm-realview-eb-11mp-revb seems to refer to RevB of
> the core tile rather than the baseboard (?), so we may need
> a better notation for the file names to clarify that difference.

OK will try to come up with some namespace.

Revisiting this mess...

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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