Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 




On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> +/ {
>> +	chosen {
>> +		stdout-path = &blsp1_uart2;
>> +	};
> 
> It would be good if we had the configuration too (see
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt), as that avoids any
> reliance on kernel defaults.
> 
> You can refer to an alias, so this could be:
> 
> aliases {
> 	serial0 = &blsp1_uart2;
> };
> 
> chosen {
> 	stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> };
> 
> ...assuming that 115200n8 is correct for your UART, of course.
> 
> 
> […]

Where is the code that actually handles this parsing?  I’m not see it in early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial and I don’t believe fdt_path_offset does anything special with ‘:'

> 
>> +#include "skeleton.dtsi"
> 
> I'd like to get rid of skeleton.dtsi; it causes more problems than it
> solves (the address/size cells mismatch is confusing and hidden, people
> forget to fill in memory nodes appropriately, etc).
> 
> Please remove this include and place appropriate #address-cells and #size-cells here.
> 
> I'd strongly recommend going with /#size-cells = <2>; it' will save on a
> lot of pain if you need to add PCIe or something with large ranges
> later. If things all fall in 4GB within the SoC then have
> /soc/#size=cells = <1> and an appropriate /soc/ranges property.
> 
> I note this DT doesn't have any memory nodes. Is that an accident or
> does the loader fill that in?

it was coming out of skeleton.dtsi

> 
> If the latter, have an empty node with a comment to that effect.

I’ll kill off usage of skeleton.dtsi

- k
-- 
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Device Tree Compilter]     [Device Tree Spec]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux PCI Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux