Subject: [PATCH v2] dts: add specific compatible type for Terasic DE0-NANO-SoC Board

From: [email-masked] (Dinh Nguyen)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:56:28 -0600

On 02/25/2016 04:38 AM, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> Hi Tim!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:05:05AM +0100, Tim Sander wrote:
>> From: Tim Sander <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Add a more specific compatible string:"terasic,de0-nano-soc" for respective board.
>> Background: when checking for bootspec entries, some board specific fixups are
>> not apropriate for board of the same platform ("altr,socfpga-cyclone5").
>> The same aproach is taken with the EBV-Socrates board.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tim Sander <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dts     | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> index 72e2c5a..d1f7803 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt
>> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ synology	Synology, Inc.
>>  tbs	TBS Technologies
>>  tcl	Toby Churchill Ltd.
>>  technologic	Technologic Systems
>> +terasic	Terasic Inc.
>>  thine	THine Electronics, Inc.
>>  ti	Texas Instruments
>>  tlm	Trusted Logic Mobility
> 
> You should IMHO split this up in two patches.
> First patch: add terasic
> 

That's right. That patch will go through the DTS maintainer's tree.

>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dts
>> index afea364..704aa9d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dts
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dts
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>>  
>>  / {
>>  	model = "Terasic DE-0(Atlas)";
>> -	compatible = "altr,socfpga-cyclone5", "altr,socfpga";
>> +	compatible = "terasic,de0-nano-soc","altr,socfpga-cyclone5", "altr,socfpga";
> 

So perhaps, "terasic,de0-sockit"?

> Second patch: this.

And I can take this one.

>>  
>>  	chosen {
>>  		bootargs = "earlyprintk";
> 
> The naming of this board still confuses me though.
> It has 3 different names now:
> 
> 	- de0_sockit.dts
> 	- Terasic DE-0(Atlas)
> 	- de0-nano-soc
> 
> And according to Terasic DE0-Nano-SoC is the same as Atlas-SoC with a different software?!
> So all three names are actually correct ?! Weird.
> 

I had a hard time understanding this myself. But from what I gather
from[1], I just name the file de0_sockit.

Dinh

[1]
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=13&List=Simple#Category167