From: Ian Campbell Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 14:48:44 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/21] sunxi: dts: Add minimal dts files for board which lack a dts sofar In-Reply-To: <553CB67B.2080407@redhat.com> References: <1429883310-22441-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1429883310-22441-19-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1430019015.12403.77.camel@hellion.org.uk> <553CB67B.2080407@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1430574524.15640.114.camel@hellion.org.uk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Sun, 2015-04-26 at 11:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 26-04-15 05:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 15:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> u-boot has support for a number of boards for which a dts file still needs > >> to be written, add minimal dts files for these boards so that we can switch > >> them over to device-model / fdt. > > > > Can these minimal things not be submitted to mainline regardless? I mean > > they are factually accurate descriptions of the h/w so far as they go, > > so why not? > > These are not tested on the actual boards, Not even with u-boot? Can we CC the people listed in board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS as responsible for the relevant boards and get them tested? > and Maxime will not take untested dts patches. I presume/hope here you mean "completely untested" as opposed to "not tested with Linux"? (Otherwise I'm going to have a little hissy fit on some other list ;-)) > > >> + * [...] for u-boot only > > > > These aren't really "for u-boot only", they are still generic facts > > about the board, just perhaps a bit incomplete. > > They lack mmc controller info for one, so no rootfs support on many > boards, iow not really useful. I'm afraid that we will just have > to live with these ones, and not accept any new boards unless they > come with a proper dts (which has been submitted upstream). > > Hopefully over time these will get a proper dts too. > > Regards, > > Hans >