Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64: Add initial Actions Semi S700 and CubieBoard7 support

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 17:50:22 EST


Hi Andreas,


On 11/09/2017 04:22, Andreas FÃrber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This series prepares the Actions Semi S700 SoC and Cubietech CubieBoard7.
> It boots equally far as the S900 based Bubblegum-96 these patches are based on,
> i.e. into an initrd with serial and all four cores up.
>
> I have not yet managed to download the CubieBoard7 sources from Baidu, and the
> Mega download has not yet been fixed, so this is based on the S700 datasheet
> and /proc/device-tree/ from the preinstalled Android.
>
> Lacking sources and instructions to replace the bootloader on eMMC or to try
> booting from SD, the only working way I've found to boot mainline kernels
> appears to be booting into Android, then issuing "reboot bootloader". U-Boot
> is lacking the saveenv command, so it wasn't possible to change the bootdelay
> to facilitate this.
>
> Cf. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:CubieBoard7
>
> Work branch:
> https://github.com/afaerber/linux/commits/bg96-next
>
> Have a lot of fun!
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
> Cc: Ahha Lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Andreas FÃrber (4):
> dt-bindings: arm: actions: Add S700 and CubieBoard7
> dt-bindings: timer: Add Actions Semi S700
> clocksource: owl: Prepare S700
> arm64: dts: actions: Add S700 and CubieBoard7
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/actions.txt | 15 ++
> .../bindings/timer/actions,owl-timer.txt | 1 +

Usually sub system maintainers are also Cc'ed with Dt bindings
definitions and usage.

> arch/arm64/boot/dts/actions/Makefile | 2 +
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/actions/s700-cubieboard7.dts | 47 ++++++
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/actions/s700.dtsi | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/clocksource/owl-timer.c | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 230 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/actions/s700-cubieboard7.dts
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/actions/s700.dtsi
>


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