[PATCH 6/7] ARM: dts: imx6ul: add support for TXUL modules on TXUL-Mainboard

Lothar Waßmann LW at KARO-electronics.de
Tue Oct 17 02:50:14 PDT 2017


Hi,

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:33:17 -0200 Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Lothar,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Lothar Waßmann <LW at karo-electronics.de> wrote:
> 
> > +/ {
> > +       aliases {
> > +               lcdif_24bit_pins_a = &pinctrl_disp0_3;
> > +               mmc0 = &usdhc1;
> 
> Is this mmc0 alias really needed here?
> 
> I see it inside imx6ul.dtsi, but even inside imx6ul.dtsi: does it make
> sense to have mmc alias?
> 
It is not used by Linux, but it's a convenient way to address the mmc
devices with the U-Boot 'fdt' command.
E.g.:
fdt set mmc0 status disabled
rather than:
fdt set /soc/aips-bus at 02100000/usdhc at 02190000 status disabled


Lothar Waßmann



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