From: andrew@lunn•ch (Andrew Lunn)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the PlatHome OpenBlocks AX3 board
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:31:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121024153131.GG11837@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121024172050.412ff1bf@skate>
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:20:50PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:06:14 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>
> > There are two variants of this box, ax3/2 and ax3/4. The ax3/4 can
> > have more RAM and has a mini pci express slot. Do you expect both
> > boards to be supported with one dts file?
>
> I have the ax3/4 version apparently.
>
> So, we can have the following possible schemes:
>
> + openblocks-ax3.dtsi
> + openblocks-ax3-2.dts
> + openblocks-ax3-4.dts
>
> But I am not sure if using a .dtsi to factorize things common between
> multiple boards is OK. Or we can do:
>
> + openblocks-ax3-2.dts
> + openblocks-ax3-4.dts
>
> With openblocks-ax3-4.dts being the simple addition of PCIe slot + more
> RAM. That said, I don't have the ax3/2 board anyway, so should we plan
> for something that nobody can test at the moment, or wait for someone
> to get a ax3/2 board, and therefore be able to do the testing? I think
> I prefer to submit dts files that are know to work and have been tested
> on hardware that we have.
Hi Thomas
I agree with the last point. So maybe have a openblocks-ax3-4.dts and
set the compatibility string to plathome,openblocks-ax3-4.
When somebody gets a ax3/2, they can refactor the common DT into a
dtsi file without causing any compatibility issues.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 8:19 [PATCH] arm: mvebu: support for the PlatHome OpenBlocks AX3 board Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-23 8:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-10-23 8:45 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-23 11:16 ` Jason Cooper
2012-10-24 8:58 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2012-10-24 14:15 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-24 15:06 ` Andrew Lunn
2012-10-24 15:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-24 15:31 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2012-10-24 15:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-26 9:18 ` Hector Oron
2012-11-26 9:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-27 13:00 ` Jason Cooper
2012-11-28 2:45 ` Mio Watanabe
2012-12-16 16:18 ` Hector Oron
2012-10-24 19:33 ` [PATCH v2] arm: mvebu: support for the PlatHome OpenBlocks AX3-4 board Thomas Petazzoni
2012-11-05 17:48 ` Olof Johansson
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