[PATCH 1/4] ARM: dts: sun8i: Extend Orange Pi PC dt to also handle the PC Plus

[hdegoede@redhat.com (Hans de Goede)]

Hi,

On 07-08-16 16:25, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28-07-16 22:36, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 28-07-16 20:17, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:07:23PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>>>> Nothing prevents you from including the orange pi pc dts, from the
>>>>>>> orange pi plus dts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It prevents the duplication you were trying to avoid, and it doesn't
>>>>>>> create all those spurious errors and devices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That would solve the copy paste problem on the kernel side, but that
>>>>>> would still mean adding a new u-boot defconfig for this, which means that
>>>>>> all the distro's which ship with prebuild u-boot binaries need to build
>>>>>> for yet another board, something which I would like to avoid.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, registering devices that are not present on the board is not an
>>>>> option.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, new version send.
>>>>
>>>> What about the other 3 patches in this series ?
>>>
>>> I guess the same comment applies for patch 2.
>>
>> The difference is that there really is no harm at all from
>> enabling the extra usb controllers used on the plus 2e
>> on the plus and plus 2 as well, no errors, no nothing, they
>> just sit their as usb controllers without an usb device plugged
>> in. But if you insist I can do a separate dts + u-boot defconfig
>> for the plus 2e as well (but I would rather not).
>
> Ping, what is the verdict on this, are you ok with the patch or
> do you want me to create a separate dts file for the Orange Pi
> Plus 2E, note that doing so is going to be highly confusing to
> users, there are 3 plus boards:
>
> Orange Pi Plus
> Orange Pi Plus 2   (same as the original plus but with 2G RAM, uses same u-boot defconfig / dts file)
> Orange Pi Plus 2E  (drops the USB-hub instead using all 3 host controllers)
>
> So if you insist on a separate dts for the 2E, we get a case where
> the user with the "2" needs to guess which config to use, sure we
> can document this, but who is going to read the docs ?

Ping can you please make a call on this, I'm ok with doing this
either way (*), but please lets just make a call and move forward.

Regards,

Hans


*) With a preference for a single dts file for all plus boards as explained
in my previous email
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans