On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

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We also intend
to upstream complete DTS files for EIC7700 so the bindings can be validated
against real hardware.

I suggest you prioritise this. ARM-SOC is pretty flexible for
accepting work in progress support for new SoCs. All you really need
is for the board to boot to a login prompt on a serial port using an
initramsfs. So the .dtsi and .dts file can be very slim, CPUs, memory
and UARTs.

Once you have that merged you can work on the other drivers, their
bindings, etc.

As Russell pointed out, at the moment, most of the code you have in
the kernel is unusable, so it is a candidate for being thrown out.

Indeed, and we've had drivers merged before for platforms that never
made it in, and they just hang around for decades, adding to the
maintainer's burden for no benefit what so ever.

So please, no more drivers for EIC7700 until there is functional
support for the platform, as Andrew states.

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