Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] ARM: phytec-som-imx6: Add low cost variant for imx6dl phycore

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Hi Stefan,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 01:17:28PM +0200, Stefan Riedmueller wrote:
>  
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6dl_som_nand_256mb, imx6dl_phytec_phycore_som_nand, SZ_256M, true);
> +PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6dl_som_lc_nand_256mb, imx6dl_phytec_phycore_som_lc_nand, SZ_256M, true);
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6dl_som_nand_1gib, imx6dl_phytec_phycore_som_nand, SZ_1G, true);
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6dl_som_emmc_1gib, imx6dl_phytec_phycore_som_emmc, SZ_1G, true);
> +PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6dl_som_lc_emmc_1gib, imx6dl_phytec_phycore_som_lc_emmc, SZ_1G, true);
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6q_som_nand_1gib, imx6q_phytec_phycore_som_nand, SZ_1G, true);
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6qp_som_nand_1gib, imx6qp_phytec_phycore_som_nand, SZ_1G, true);
>  PHYTEC_ENTRY(start_phytec_phycore_imx6q_som_emmc_1gib, imx6q_phytec_phycore_som_emmc, SZ_1G, true);

I am a bit worried that with this series the combinatoric explosion of
the Phytec boards goes into another round. For some reason the lowcost
NAND version has 256MiB SDRAM and the eMMC version has 1GiB SDRAM. I
guess different combinations are not supported because you haven't
produced them yet, but they might appear sooner or later. Even now it is
really hard to pick a board from the shelf and find the right barebox
binary for it. Do you have any ideas/plans to improve this?

It seems all boards have EEPROMs. Wouldn't it be an option to store some
information there?

Another point is: Do we really need image variants for eMMC and NAND? In
the end the drivers detect automatically if one or the other is equipped
on the board.

Let's go crazy now. How about a QR code on the board with a link that
describes which hardware (SoC variant, amount of memory, NAND/eMMC) I
am looking at?

Anyway, applied, thanks. It would just be nice to see some improvements
here.

Sascha

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