Re: [PATCH 0/4] R-Car M3-W Salvator-X: Add ethernet support

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Hi Geeert,

On Tuesday 06 Sep 2016 10:53:20 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > This patch series adds support for the RAVB ethernet controller on the
> > M3-W (R8A7796) Salvator-X board.
> > 
> > The patches are based on top of Simon's latest devel branch, with the
> > following patches cherry-picked:
> > 
> > [PATCH/RFT 1/8] clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add GPIO clocks
> > [PATCH/RFT 4/8] gpio: rcar: Add r8a7796 (R-Car M3-W) support
> > [PATCH/RFT 6/8] arm64: dts: r8a7796: Add GPIO device nodes
> 
> Thanks, very useful to have!
> 
> Howeveer, I thought the plan was to not add more hardware support to
> r8a7796-salvator-x.dts that might not work with 64-bit memory, to avoid
> this becoming a blocker when enabling 64-bit memory?

We need to fix that ASAP for ethernet, as that's really a blocker for 
development.

> > I'd like to suggest merging the GPIO support without PFC if it helps
> > getting ethernet support in v4.9, as this is a very handy feature for
> > development.
>
> In the mean time, Linus W. has pulled basic r8a7796 support from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git
> tags/sh-pfc-for-v4.9-tag2, so Simon can pull it as well, and queue pinctrl
> patches for the devices that are already declared in r8a7796-salvator-x.dts.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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