[PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: soc: xilinx: Document ifm ZynqMP VHIP6 EvalBoard
Marek Vasut
marex at nabladev.com
Mon Sep 14 17:10:16 PDT 2026
On 9/14/26 8:29 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
[...]
>>>>> There will be thousands of similar boards out there and I am
>>>>> definitely not going to have all of them in the tree.
>>>> Why not ? There are users who benefit from having their board
>>>> support upstream. This is what other SoC vendors do as well, it does
>>>> not seem to be a problem, rather it is a good indicator that the SoC
>>>> has users who care about it and about upstream.
>>>
>>> If there is public documentation about it I don't have any problem
>>> with it.
>>
>> I do not think there is, but no public documentation is the case with
>> many boards/DTs that are upstream, and it does not diminish their
>> usefulness to their users.
>>
>> What do you need to know ?
>
> All these SOC based boards are created not because of hard block (PS
> part) but because of programmable logic which is not described in any
> upstream project DT. It means no matter what manufacturer has to
> maintain PL description separately.
>
> I don't really mind if other maintainers are fine with dealing with
> these kind of boards without any public documentation. There is no way
> to check if even your description is correct.
> I am not going to take any responsibility for maintaining them.
I can help with maintaining this board, it's a non-issue.
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