[PATCH linux dev-4.10] ARM: aspeed: zaius: Support new board FSI gpio pin mapping

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Jun 6 12:14:14 AEST 2017


On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Rob Lippert <rlippert at google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Robert Lippert <roblip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FSI routing was broken on EVT boards and all boards were reworked
>>> to use the nearest available GPIO pins.  Future boards have
>>> fixed the issue so need to use the original planned GPIOG ports.
>>
>> How long will we need to carry support for the EVT boards?
>
> EVT boards should be scrapped within a few months (by end of year at
> the latest) at which point we can remove this code hack and uncomment
> the properties in the .dts file.
>
>>
>> We had proposed using u-boot to fix up the device tree for these kind
>> of changes. If you want to support the EVT long term, we should look
>> in to implementing those changes in u-boot.
>
> I looked at that briefly but it was significantly more complicated :)

Yeah agreed. Lets carry the hack for now, and it can be dropped in a
future rebase.

Cheers,

Joel


More information about the openbmc mailing list