Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add Mediatek X20 Development Board support

From: Matthias Brugger
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 11:15:17 EST




On 29/05/18 09:27, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 08:38:27AM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>> Hi Manivannan,
>>
>> it's nice to see that someone at Linaro cares about upstreaming the 96 board.
>> From what I can see, your patches add the very same support to the board as
>> does the mt6797 evaluation board. Do you have plans to upstream more drivers for
>> the board? Do you have a roadmap or something?
>>
>> I'm asking becuase I don't want to have just another dead devicetree in the
>> kernel which does nothing but provides a boot to rootfs. Especially as this can
>> be achieved on the same board with the EVB dts.
>>
>
> I can understand your concern here. I do have plans to add more drivers
> in the future for this board but I can't give you any roadmap for that
> since it mostly falls under the spare time work and I have been doing a
> similar kind of work for the Bubblegum-96 board in parallel.
>
> At most I can guarentee that this board's functionality will be added
> gradually in upcoming days.
>

Sounds good. Fancy to send a v2 with the comments from Rob?

Regards,
Matthias

> Thanks,
> Mani
>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>>
>> On 29/05/18 06:52, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> Add devicetree support for Mediatek X20 Development Board by Archermind.
>>> This board is based on the Deca-Core MT6797 SoC from Mediatek and is
>>> one of the 96Boards Consumer Edition platform.
>>>
>>> With this devicetree change, board can boot into initramfs.
>>>
>>> More information about this board can be found in 96Boards product page:
>>> https://www.96boards.org/product/mediatek-x20/
>>>
>>> Manivannan Sadhasivam (2):
>>> dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for ArcherMind
>>> arm64: dts: Add Mediatek X20 Development Board support
>>>
>>> .../devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt | 1 +
>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/Makefile | 1 +
>>> .../boot/dts/mediatek/mt6797-x20-dev.dts | 33 +++++++++++++++++++
>>> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/mediatek/mt6797-x20-dev.dts
>>>