Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] Raspberry Pi 4 DMA addressing support
From: Stefan Wahren <wahrenst@gmx.net>
Date: 2019-09-16 19:20:10
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Hi Matthias, [drop uninvolved receiver] Am 13.09.19 um 12:39 schrieb Matthias Brugger:
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If you talk about the downstream kernel, I suppose you mean we should change this in the FW DT blob and in the downstream kernel. That would work for me. Did I understand you correctly?Yes So i suggest to add the upstream compatibles into the repo mentioned above. Sorry, but in case you decided as a U-Boot developer to be compatible with a unreviewed DT, we also need to make U-Boot compatible with upstream and downstream DT blobs.Well RPi3 is working with the DT blob provided by the FW, as I mentioned earlier if we can use this DTB we can work towards one binary that can boot both RPi3 and RPi4. On the other hand we can rely on the FW to detect the amount of memory our RPi4 has. That said, I agree that we should make sure that U-Boot can boot with both DTBs, the upstream one and the downstream. Now the question is how to get to this. I'm a bit puzzled that by talking about "unreviewed DT" you insinuate that bcm2711 compatible is already reviewed and can't be changed. From what I can see none of these compatibles got merged for now, so we are still at time to change them.Stephen Boyd was okay with clk changes except of a small nit. So i fixed this is as he suggested in a separate series. Unfortunately this hasn't be applied yet [1]. The i2c, pinctrl and the sdhci changes has been applied yet. In my opinion it isn't the job of the mainline kernel to adapt to a vendor device tree. It's the vendor device tree which needs to be fixed.I agree with that. But if we can make this easier by choosing a compatible which fits downstream without violating upstream and it makes sense with the naming scheme of the RPi, I think that's a good argument.
i spend a lot of my spare time to prepare these patch series in order to get a clean solution. Either mixing bcm2711/bcm2838 or changing everything to bcm2838 in the upstream tree has the following drawbacks: - additional review time and delay of the Raspberry Pi 4 support - harder to understand for developer/reviewer without RPi knowledge Btw currently u-boot only uses bcm2711, so it would be nice to keep that. So my suggestion is to add bcm2711 compatibles in the downstream tree. Best regards Stefan
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Sorry, but this is my holiday. I will back after the weekend.Sure, enjoy. I'll be on travel for the next two weeks but will try to keep up with emails. Regards, Matthiasquoted
Best regards Stefan [1] - https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-clk/msg40534.htmlquoted
Apart from the point Florian made, to stay consistent with the RPi SoC naming, it will save us work, both in the kernel and in U-Boot, as we would need to add both compatibles to the code-base. Regards, Matthiasquoted
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