[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: Add support for Varisys Cyrus board

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Sep 3 03:42:25 AEST 2015


On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 12:23 -0500, Andy Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 01:36 -0500, Andy Fleming wrote:
> > > This board uses a P5020 or P5040 chip, and boots just fine using
> > > the corenet_generic code. The device tree is very similar to the
> > > P5020DS, except that there is no Flash memory. The environment is,
> > > instead, stored on an MMC card on the motherboard.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/cyrus.dts               | 175
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c |   1 +
> > >  2 files changed, 176 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/cyrus.dts
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/cyrus.dts
> > > b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/cyrus.dts
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..07fe509
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/cyrus.dts
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
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> > > +/include/ "fsl/p5020si-pre.dtsi"
> > 
> > What happens when the board has a p5040?
> 
> 
> Hmm...I hadn't thought of that. I can respin the dts to be
> cyrus_5020.dts, and provide a cyrus_5040.dts later. That version of
> the product doesn't exist yet. Does that make sense?

Sure.

> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > > b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > > index b395571..76e521e 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/corenet_generic.c
> > > @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static const char * const boards[] __initconst = {
> > >       "fsl,T1042RDB",
> > >       "fsl,T1042RDB_PI",
> > >       "keymile,kmcoge4",
> > > +     "varisys,CYRUS",
> > >       NULL
> > 
> > I don't see this compatible in the dts.  Why allcaps?
> 
> I wondered about the allcaps, too, but there are already systems
> floating around, possibly with dtbs with that compatible in there. I'm
> reluctant to change it.

That's fine.  It seemed like the name wasn't in use yet based on the dts. :-)

-Scott



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