Hi Laurent,
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:38 PM Laurent Pinchart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 August 2018 02:11:02 EEST Eugeniu Rosca wrote:
> > In the context of M3N-ULCB (RTP0RC77965SKBX010SA00) board bring-up, it's
> > rather pointless to add a new "renesas,m3nulcb" compatible string. Any
> > SoC-level differences between the two variants of ULCB (M3 and M3-N)
> > should be successfully covered by making use of existing
> > "renesas,r8a7796" and "renesas,r8a77965" compatibles.
> >
> > Prior to adding M3-N Starter Kit to the list, rename:
> > - "renesas,h3ulcb" => "renesas,ulcb"
> > - "renesas,m3ulcb" => "renesas,ulcb"
>
> This bothers me more than the naming convention in patch 01/14, as this change
> would completely hide differences between the H3 and M3-N versions of the
> ULCB. Compatible strings are listed in a decreasing order of specificity, and
> having "renesas,ulcb" as the most-specific compatible string means that the
> two boards are supposed to be identical, while they are not.
AFAIK the boards are identical (cfr. ), except for the SiP mounted.
Cfr. e.g. the combined R-Car_StarterKit_Gen3_H3_M3_DEV_Rev.053.pdf
("Renesas R-Car H3/M3 Device Manual", incl. schematics).
Hence to me the patch makes sense (modulo out-of-tree dependencies on the
old compatible values).
> > Relevant DTS changes come in separate per-DTS commits.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/shmobile.txt | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/shmobile.txt
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/shmobile.txt index
> > d8cf740132c6..f391dba10574 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/shmobile.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/shmobile.txt
> > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Boards:
> > compatible = "renesas,gose", "renesas,r8a7793"
> > - H3ULCB (R-Car Starter Kit Premier, RTP0RC7795SKBX0010SA00 (H3 ES1.1))
> > H3ULCB (R-Car Starter Kit Premier, RTP0RC77951SKBX010SA00 (H3 ES2.0))
> > - compatible = "renesas,h3ulcb", "renesas,r8a7795"
> > + compatible = "renesas,ulcb", "renesas,r8a7795"
> > - Henninger
> > compatible = "renesas,henninger", "renesas,r8a7791"
> > - iWave Systems RZ/G1C Single Board Computer (iW-RainboW-G23S)
> > @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Boards:
> > - Lager (RTP0RC7790SEB00010S)
> > compatible = "renesas,lager", "renesas,r8a7790"
> > - M3ULCB (R-Car Starter Kit Pro, RTP0RC7796SKBX0010SA09 (M3 ES1.0))
> > - compatible = "renesas,m3ulcb", "renesas,r8a7796"
> > + compatible = "renesas,ulcb", "renesas,r8a7796"
> > - Marzen (R0P7779A00010S)
> > compatible = "renesas,marzen", "renesas,r8a7779"
> > - Porter (M2-LCDP)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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