[PATCH][v2] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add T1040D4RDB/T1042D4RDB board support

Priyanka Jain Priyanka.Jain at freescale.com
Thu Jul 30 14:55:13 AEST 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wood Scott-B07421
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 3:45 AM
> To: Jain Priyanka-B32167
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add T1040D4RDB/T1042D4RDB
> board support
> 
> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 04:07 -0500, Jain Priyanka-B32167 wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wood Scott-B07421
> > > Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 8:58 PM
> > > To: Jain Priyanka-B32167
> > > Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] powerpc/fsl-booke: Add
> > > T1040D4RDB/T1042D4RDB board support
> > >
> > > OK, so you're saying the i2c devices are pluggable (and I'm assuming
> > > by "PEX slots" you just mean that the physical slot is repurposed,
> > > not that the PCI express protocol is involved)?  Making a
> > > non-runtime-enumerable bus be pluggable seems like a bad idea, but
> > > if that's really what has been done, there needs to be a device tree
> > > that represents the entire system, not just the motherboard.  This
> > > could be done either via a dts file that /include/s the motherboard
> > > dts, or via firmware dtb edits.  The dts for the motherboard should
> > > include the mux node with a comment explaining what the situation
> > > is.
> > >
> > [Jain Priyanka-B32167] Is the below comment looks OK?
> > "Output I2C data, clock lines (SDO/SC0,SD1/SC1 , SD2/SC2, SD3/SC3) are
> > going mini PCI connector slot1, mini PCI connector slot2, HDMI
> > connector, PEX slot respectively  The sub-nodes will depend upon the
> > device that will be connected on these slots"
> 
> How about:
> 
> "Child nodes depend on which i2c devices are connected via the mini PCI
> 
> connector slot1, the mini PCI connector slot2, the HDMI connector, and the
> 
> PEX slot.  Systems with such devices attached should provide a wrapper .dts
> file that includes this one, and adds those nodes."
> 
[Jain Priyanka-B32167] Thanks, This looks good. I will send the updated patch.
> -Scott



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