Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V board support

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On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 06:02:20PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> Hey Jisheng,

Hi Conor,

> 
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 12:15:21AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > Sipeed's Lichee Pi 4A development board uses Lichee Module 4A core
> > module which is powered by T-HEAD's TH1520 SoC. Add minimal device
> > tree files for the core module and the development board.
> > 
> > Support basic uart/gpio/dmac drivers, so supports booting to a basic
> > shell.
> > 
> > NOTE: the thead cpu reset dt-binding and DT node are removed in v3. This
> > makes secondary CPUs unable to be online.
> 
> The kernel doesn't do anything with that node though, so if you were to
> load a fitImage in U-Boot containing this DT, having booted with
> whatever the factory provided OpenSBI has, that limitation doesn't
> apply, right?

The cpu reset DT node is for opensbi, linux kernel doesn't need it.
So you are right: if the u-boot contains the DT node(no matter how
the DT node is added, statically added or dynamically added with
uboot cmd), the limitation doesn't apply.

> 
> > However, minimal th1520
> > support is better than nothing. And the community has been working on
> > and will work on the cpu reset dt-binding, for example, Conor, Guo and
> > Jessica are discussing about it, I have seen valuable comments and
> > inputs from them. I believe we can add back cpu reset in next
> > development window.
> 
> I'll go take a look through this, if it's good I'll apply it and send it
> on to Arnd for 6.5? Although I assume it is fine since v2 was nearly

Thank you for helping to send out this Pull request!

> fine!
> 
> Cheers,
> Conor.





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