[PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: broadcom: amend the comment about the role of BCM2712 board DTS

Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli at broadcom.com
Thu Sep 4 15:15:33 PDT 2025


From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:12:35 +0200, Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta at suse.com> wrote:
> Current board DTS for Raspberry Pi5 states that bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dts
> should not be modified and all declarations should go in the overlay
> board DTS instead (bcm2712-rpi-5-b-ovl-rp1.dts).
> 
> There's a caveat though: there's currently no infrastructure to reliably
> reference nodes that have not been declared yet, as is the case when
> loading those nodes from a runtime overlay. For more details about
> these limitations see [1] and follow-ups.
> 
> Change the comment to make it clear which DTS file will host specific
> nodes, especially the RP1 related nodes which should be customized
> outside the overlay DTS.
> 
> Link
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMEGJJ3=W8_R0xBvm8r+Q7iExZx8xPBHEWWGAT9ngpGWDSKCaQ@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta at suse.com>
> ---

Applied to https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux/commits/devicetree-arm64/next, thanks!
--
Florian



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