Re: [PATCH 00/21] Add minimal Tensor/GS101 SoC support and Oriole/Pixel6 board

[Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 17:32, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 05/10/2023 17:55, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This series adds initial SoC support for the GS101 SoC and also initial board
> > support for Pixel 6 phone (Oriole).
> >
> > The gs101 / Tensor SoC is also used in Pixel6a (bluejay) and Pixel 6 Pro (raven).
> > Currently DT is just added for the gs101 SoC and Oriole.
>
> Thanks for submitting the patches. Nice work!

Thanks, and thankyou for reviewing the series so promptly.

>
> This is basically a custom-made variant of Exynos made by Samsung for
> Google. Something similar what is with Tesla FSD (and Axis Artpec-8
> which was not upstreamed, AFAIR). Many, many drivers and bindings will
> be re-used. I want to be sure that GS101 fits into existing Samsung
> Exynos support, re-uses it as much as possible and extend when necessary
> without breaking anything. Therefore, when the patches are ready, I
> would like to be the one applying entire set and future submissions
> through Samsung SoC tree, just like I am doing it with Tesla FSD, so I
> keep entire Samsung-ecosystem in shape.
>
> This also means that you are lucky to be selected to:
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6-rc4/source/Documentation/process/maintainer-soc-clean-dts.rst
> joining there Tesla FSD and entire Samsung Exynos family :)
>
> I hope that's ok.

That's all fine, it makes sense and it was what I was expecting. Maybe
we can try and get you some Pixel 6 hardware as well. The only other
Exynos hardware I have for testing unfortunately is the e850 board Sam
has been working on.

Coincidentally https://www.crowdsupply.com/0xda/usb-cereal just started
shipping. Which is quite nice (albeit coincidental) timing, as anyone who
has a Pixel 6 device can order one so they can run upstream kernels on
their phone and have the debug UART available (which currently is the
only way to really interact with the system until we bring up more IO).

regards,

Peter