On 15/09/2022 23:41, Lad, Prabhakar wrote: > Hi Conor, > > Thank you for the review. > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10:56 PM <Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 15/09/2022 19:15, Prabhakar wrote: >>> EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe >>> >>> From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Enable the minimal blocks required for booting the Renesas RZ/Five >>> SMARC EVK with initramfs. >>> >>> Below are the blocks enabled: >>> - CPG >>> - CPU0 >>> - DDR (memory regions) >>> - PINCTRL >>> - PLIC >>> - SCIF0 >>> >>> Note we have deleted the nodes from the DT for which support needs to be >>> added for RZ/Five SoC and are enabled by RZ/G2UL SMARC EVK SoM/carrier >>> board DTS/I. >> >> idk, I am not sure what to think of this approach. >> >> What do you mean by "for which support needs to be added"? If the support >> does not exist yet, then is surely you can just add the nodes and it will >> be fine? >> > As pointed out previously, I am re-using the below files [1] (SoM) and > [2] (Carrier board) as the RZ/Five SMARC EVK is pin compatible. Since > [1] and [2] enable almost all the peripherals (status = okay) on the > RZ/G2UL SMARC EVK which are supported. For example [1] enables SDHI0/1 > this high speed block needs DMA and without cache management fixed on > Andes core we cannot enable this on RZ/Five SoC so currently a > placeholder is added for it in the RZ/FIve SoC DTSI and is deleted in > the board DTS file. > > Below blocks suffer the cache management issue: > - DMAC > - ETH > - SDHI > - USB > > Rest of the blocks will be gradually enabled (as soon as this initial > patchset is merged) along with the DT binding doc updates. > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzg2ul-smarc-som.dtsi?h=v6.0-rc5 > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/rzg2ul-smarc.dtsi?h=v6.0-rc5 Explanations are reasonable, but again - that information is important and really needs to be included in the commit message etc. Thanks, Conor.