Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] devicetree: bindings: add DT binding for the Marvell Armada 3700 SoC family

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Wed,  3 Feb 2016 19:41:25 +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> The Marvell Armada 3700 is a family of ARMv8 CA53 SoCs. This commit
> introduces the Device Tree binding that documents the top-level
> compatible strings for Armada 3700 based platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/armada-37xx.txt      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/armada-37xx.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/armada-37xx.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/armada-37xx.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..17e90e8b5f76
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/marvell/armada-37xx.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +Marvell Armada 37xx Platforms Device Tree Bindings
> +--------------------------------------------------
> +
> +Boards using a SoC of the Marvell Armada 37xx family must carry the
> +following root node property:
> +
> + - compatible: must contain "marvell,armada3710"

Are we sure at this point that the 3720 is a strict super-set of the
3710 ?

If that's not the case, then it would be somewhat weird for a platform
using the 3720 platform to carry the marvell,armada3710 compatible
string, no?

Thomas
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