From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de,
"Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi" <michael@amarulasolutions.com>,
"William Zhang" <william.zhang@broadcom.com>,
"Anand Gore" <anand.gore@broadcom.com>,
"Kursad Oney" <kursad.oney@broadcom.com>,
"Joel Peshkin" <joel.peshkin@broadcom.com>,
"Philippe Reynes" <philippe.reynes@softathome.com>,
"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] board: Add new Broadcom Northstar board
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 17:40:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230407214044.GN1134230@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbkGNJ+-=zj3EROfBw4Yt_4=3f7_ouW8rmt2go=7hhHMA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 11:31:03PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > This adds a simple Northstar "BRCMNS" board to be used with
> > > the BCM4709x and BCM5301x chips.
> > >
> > > The main intention is to use this with the D-Link DIR-890L
> > > and DIR-885L routers for loading the kernel into RAM from
> > > NAND memory using the BCH-1 ECC and using the separately
> > > submitted SEAMA load command, so we are currently not adding
> > > support for things such as networking.
> > >
> > > If other board need other ECC for example, they need to
> > > create a separate DTS file and augment the code, but I don't
> > > know if any other users will turn up.
> > >
> > > Cc: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > ChangeLog v3->v4:
> > > - No changes
> > > ChangeLog v1->v3:
> > > - Bundle with the iproc nand and algo select patches
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > arch/arm/dts/Makefile | 2 ++
> > > arch/arm/dts/ns-board.dts | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > To be clear, what Linux kernel tag is this dts file from?
>
> This is constructed for u-boot, it just contains a subset making
> U-boot work fine on any D-Link NorthStar device.
>
> It's similar to how we created "stemmy" for all U8500 Samsung phones.
So it's kind of a dummy example? OK. Those aren't unheard of in the
kernel, or maybe they're just sneakily there.
--
Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-07 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-07 13:40 [PATCH v4 0/5] Add Broadcom Northstar basic support Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 13:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] nand: brcmnand: add iproc support Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 13:40 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] mtd: rawnand: nand_base: Handle algorithm selection Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 17:46 ` Tom Rini
2023-04-07 13:40 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] arm: dts: Import device tree for Broadcom Northstar Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 17:46 ` Tom Rini
2023-04-07 21:28 ` Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 21:39 ` Tom Rini
2023-04-07 13:40 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] arm: Add support for the Broadcom Northstar SoCs Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 13:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] board: Add new Broadcom Northstar board Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 17:46 ` Tom Rini
2023-04-07 21:31 ` Linus Walleij
2023-04-07 21:40 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2023-04-08 22:03 ` Linus Walleij
2023-04-13 7:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Add Broadcom Northstar basic support Heinrich Schuchardt
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