Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: kirkwood: resynch 98dx4122 dtsi

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 01:11:40PM +0200, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> On 05/15/2014 12:35 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> > On 05/15/2014 11:48 AM, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
> >> The 98DX4122 dtsi file lacks the defintion of the PCIe controller which
> >> is present on this SoC.
> > 
> > Valentin,
> > 
> > good to have you back on 98dx4122. I was already thinking about
> > reworking the current kirkwood.dtsi and kirkwood-<soc>.dtsi as I
> > feel there may be more issues with "common" IP that was removed
> > in 98dx4122.
> > 
> >> The SATA phys must also be explicitely disabled since they are not
> >> present on this SoC. If they remain enabled, a hardlock occures when
> >> their clock gates are enabled.
> > 
> > While I am ok with disabling now, we should really rethink the
> > current SoC-specific includes as we are already facing some issues
> > that cause headaches.
> > 
> > Actually, the initial idea was to remove all nodes from kirkwood.dtsi
> > that are not available in one of the SoCs and rather put them into
> > the SoC-specific include.
> > 
> > But over time we end up with a mix of both, SoC-specific nodes like
> > pcie below _and_ SoC-specific fixes like sata-phy below.
> > 
> > To be consitent, we should either duplicate the sata-phy nodes in
> > kirkwood-6foo.dtsi - or what I prefer - move most of it back to
> > kirkwood.dtsi and use "disabled" in the SoC-specific ones.
> 
> For the sake of the disscussion, we also have some powerPC boards here at
> Keymile and there the approach is exactly the one you prefer above. First I was
> a bit confused but now I think this approach is "cleaner" (or makes more sense
> to me ;-)).

No complaints here either. :)

thx,

Jason.
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