Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/2] arm/arm64: dts: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi devices

From: Moessbauer Felix <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
To: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	 bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	 linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, soc@kernel.org,
	 quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com, manuel.matzinger@siemens.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/2] arm/arm64: dts: Enable device-tree overlay support for RPi devices
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:52:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <67b75edc23b0ef53bffbc218a93d916b2b66d3ee.camel@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f079ec5-37d3-78e8-9632-b394cf5bd66b@i2se.com>

On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 07:59 +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> Am 27.06.23 um 03:56 schrieb Moessbauer Felix:
> > On Wed, 2022-05-18 at 12:52 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 4/27/2022 4:36 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > > This patchset changes the generation of the Raspberry Pi
> > > > devices
> > > > DTB
> > > > files to improve the support for out-of-tree device-tree
> > > > overlays,
> > > > like
> > > > it has recently been done for the Nvidia SoCs.
> > > > 
> > > > I personally only need that for arm64, but I have added a
> > > > similar
> > > > patch
> > > > to do the same on arm.
> > > 
> > > This looks good to me, Rob, does that approach work for you?
> > 
> > Since May 2023 this patch is integrated into the Debian kernel
> > build
> > [1]. However it would be better if we could integrate it into the
> > kernel directly. Is there anything blocking? For me, the patch
> > looks
> > fine. Similar patches for Nvidia boards also already got integrated
> > [2].
> > 
> > If there is no general objection against enabling the overlays, I
> > plan
> > to send patches for the sun8i-h3 arm boards as well.
> 
> this series has been resubmitted recently and applied. Could you
> please 
> check current linux-next?

Thanks for the quick response. That was indeed a very recent change
(not yet in a release) which I missed.

Then I'll send the patches for the sun8i-h3-*pi*.dts by end of today.

Felix

> 
> Best regards
> 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Felix Moessbauer
> > Siemens AG
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/fae42149fd0a37c68a496efbbb11f1dac484a163
> > [2]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220203184327.65878-1-jonathanh@nvidia.com/T/