[GIT PULL] ~RISC-V~Starfive devicetrees fixes for v7.0-rc6
Ilya Sorochan
k0tran at altlinux.org
Mon Mar 30 02:24:24 PDT 2026
On Sat Mar 28, 2026 at 1:07 PM MSK, E Shattow wrote:
>>> I'm glad you sent a patch, but I still object for the other reasons
>>> mentioned.
>>
>> I'm glad to talk to competent people in this space, however I still hope that
>> the kernel will refrain from breaking this feature until it is really necessary.
>
> I hope you'll continue on to review the BootROM r.e. effort and cite its
> code snippets in patches so adding bootph-pre-ram hints covering the
> eMMC SPL boot method from StarFive Loader, retrospectively describing
> the SD Card SPL boot method from StarFive Loader, and/or secure boot
> crypto accelerator functionality in the starfive crypto driver (what
> does command=8 and command=9 do exactly?) The exact nature of the bug in
> StarFive Loader UART XMODEM incompatibility could use a proper
> description, and SPI Flash configuration parameter analysis, too.
Unfortunately this is beyond my competence. This exact issue was fixed without
any r.e. only using git bisect. And while it might be interesting diving into
learning how things are I'm not sure I will.
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