Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] arm64: dts: renesas: Break out common board support

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Hi Simon,

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:32:49PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
>> >> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > CC Vladimir (which I forgot to CC initially, sorry for that)
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> >>> The Renesas Salvator-X and ULCB development board can be equipped with
>> >> >>> either an R-Car H3 or M3-W SiP, which are pin-compatible.  All boards
>> >> >>> use separate DTBs, but currently there's no sharing of board-specific
>> >> >>> devices in DTS.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> This series reduces duplication by extracting common board support into
>> >> >>> their own .dtsi files.  As the level of support varies across boards and
>> >> >>> SoCs, this requires the addition of a few external clocks and
>> >> >>> placeholder devices on R-Car M3-W, so the common board support DTS can
>> >> >>> refer to them.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>   - Patches 1 and 2 add the external audio and PCIe bus clocks on R-Car
>> >> >>>     M3-W, which are present in r8a7795.dtsi, and used in
>> >> >>>     r8a7795-salvator-x.dts,
>> >> >>>   - RFC patch 3 adds placeholders for devices that are not yet supported
>> >> >>>     and/or tested on R-Car M3-W, but used on R-Car H3,
>> >> >>>   - RFC patch 4 extracts common Salvator-X board support,
>> >> >>>   - RFC patch 5 extracts common ULCB board support.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> For R-Car H3 based boards, there are no functional changes.
>> >> >>> For R-Car M3-W based boards, some new devices are now described in DT.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Dependencies:
>> >> >>>   - renesas-devel-20170420-v4.11-rc7,
>> >> >>>   - Patches 1 and 2 can be applied as-is,
>> >> >>>   - Patches 4 and 5 depend on "[PATCH 0/8] arm64: dts: renesas: Break
>> >> >>>     out R-Car H3 and M3-W SiP"
>> >> >>>     (http://www.spinics.net/lists/devicetree/msg173820.html).
>>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> >> >>> DTB changes have been inspected using scripts/dtc/dtx_diff.
>> >> >>> This has been tested on Salvator-X (both H3 and M3-W).
>> >> >>> This has not been tested on H3ULCB and M3ULCB due to lack of hardware.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Thanks for your comments!
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks for tackling this important problem. I have looked over the changes
>> >> >> and they seem nice to me. I would, however, be more comfortable applying
>> >> >> them if they were rested on the ULCB boards.
>> >> >
>> >> > tested?
>> >> >
>> >> > I've pushed a branch for testing to topic/rcar3-dtsi-sharing in
>> >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git.
>> >>
>> >> I managed to test it on the new H3ULCB and M3ULCB baords in Magnus' farm.
>> >> No issues detected.
>> >
>> > Great! Any objections to me queuing this up?
>>
>> The dependency above (no feedback about the SiP types yet).
>>
>> I can respin without that dependency, if that is preferred...
>
> It seems to me that it would be nice to get these in sooner than later - in
> particular earlier rather than later in the (v4.13) development cycle. But
> I defer to your judgement on what is best.

Agreed.  Stay tuned for v2...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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