Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm: dts: Add support for National Instruments Project Sulfur SDRs

[Philip Balister]

On 09/26/2017 02:06 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 26.9.2017 19:58, Philip Balister wrote:
>> On 09/26/2017 01:50 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>>> Michal,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 02:54:48PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 25.9.2017 18:11, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>>>>> Hi Michal,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Moritz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sorry for delay.
>>>>>
>>>>> No problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12.9.2017 01:22, Moritz Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>> Add support for the National Instruments Project Sulfur SDR
>>>>>>> motherboards Rev 2,3 and 4.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile                |   3 +
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev2.dts |  84 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev3.dts | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev4.dts |  26 ++++++
>>>>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur.dtsi     | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  5 files changed, 364 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev2.dts
>>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev3.dts
>>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur-rev4.dts
>>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/zynq-ni-sulfur.dtsi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this publicly available board?
>>>>>
>>>>> Will be in Q1 2018 was announced at GRCon'17 ([1]).
>>>>> Some of the Rev3s are currently deployed in Norway as part of a radar
>>>>> system.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am not quite sure we should apply these dts files. There are a lot of
>>>>>> boards with zynq and there must be any strong argument for applying this
>>>>>> to the tree. For arm32 with even flat tree structure.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the issue with merging them, except for having 3 more files? 
>>>>
>>>> For me this is not a problem because on Linux side it is not increasing
>>>> build time.
>>>> I want to see the value for community. All xilinx platforms are
>>>> evaluation generic purpose boards which are showing how to connect stuff
>>>> together.
>>>> On the other hand this is real product.
>>>
>>> Uh.
>>>
>>>> I would let arm-soc maintainer to decide if this is fine or not. I
>>>> definitely don't want to end up in situation that we will have dts for
>>>> real products which are not bringing any value for others.
>>>
>>> Sure, it's the maintainers call.
>>>
>>> I do intend to have my customers run mainline on it eventually, currently
>>> I'm a handful of patches away from making that happen. So yes, running
>>> mainline is a usecase that matters to me.
>>>
>>> It is one thing to keep bitching about vendor kernels as a community
>>> continuously, but then if someone goes through the effort and actually
>>> tries to run mainline, you give them crap like that above.
>>>
>>> Our products usually come with full schematics [1], firmware, fpga code and all
>>> available, I don't know what makes them less useful to the community as a
>>> platform to experiment and develop on than Xilinx eval boards.
>>>
>>> There's several people that I know of both hobbyists and companies that
>>> build systems around these platforms, so I don't know ...
>>
>> I expect this product to be delivered with full source and a mainline
>> kernel, so lets make it easy for Moritz to do the right thing here. This
>> makes long term support of this product much easier.
>>
>> Acked-by: Philip Balister <philip@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I think this is the right way to go. Get ACK from Arnd or Olof or Kevin
> and I will merge this.
> I am simply just afraid that if a lot of zynq customers will ask for it
> we can will end up with a lot of zynq/zynqmp based dts files in the
> kernel and arm-soc guys will stop this that it is simply too much and
> won't accept +1 case.

I share the same concerns. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem like any
other structured way to manage dts files.

As an OpenEmbedded guy, I know I can carry them with BSP's, but not
everyone uses OpenEmbedded. I'd love to see a long term scalable
solution for tracking dts files, but that is outside the scope of
Moritz's request.

Philip

> 
> Thanks,
> Michal
>