I had problems moving from 3.10ltsi to 4.x a while ago. Here¹s what I did,
and so far it¹s held up without issues:

https://lists.rocketboards.org/pipermail/rfi/2016-June/003427.html

The whole thread is worth a read.

‹ Tim

Tim Kennedy
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On 10/7/16, 4:14 PM, "gm...@reliableembeddedsystems.com"
<gm...@reliableembeddedsystems.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On 2016-10-07 13:38, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> 
>> In my opinion, that warning is overstated. There's a fair amount more
>> work involved in using sopc2dts on an "unsupported" kernel than on the
>> officially supported one, but it's still a lot less effort than writing
>> the dts by hand.
>
>OK I'll give it a try with sopc2dts.
>
>> 
>>> I would need a bit more information between which IP blocks are
>>> supported in mainline Linux and device tree examples would help.
>> 
>> Aside from the ones that ship with stock kernel sources these days?
>
>My understanding is, that e.g. the Altera (FPGA) GPIO controller
>bindings are defined here[1].
>
>Anyhow, I would assume that this GPIO controller is somehow (e.g. a
>bridge) connected to the HPS. I guess I'll need to describe this kind of
>information in the device tree. Where is this documented?
>
>> 
>>  - Lowell
>
>[1] 
>https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Docum
>entation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-altera.txt?id=refs/tags/v4.8
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert
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