Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: aspeed: Add ASRock ROMED8HM3 BMC

[Zev Weiss]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 02:59:28AM PST, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 23:10, Zev Weiss <zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is a half-width, single-socket Epyc server board with an AST2500
> > BMC.  This device tree is sufficient for basic OpenBMC functionality,
> > but we'll need to add a few more devices (as driver support becomes
> > available) before it's fully usable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> Have you considered using the openbmc gpio naming scheme for the
> gpio-line-names?

I looked at it, but decided not to for a few reasons:

 - For systems that are in the early stages of a porting effort (like 
   this one currently is), I'm still referring to hardware schematics 
   fairly often, and using the same identifiers in software that are 
   used in the schematics simplifies things by avoiding an extra
   translation step between the two.

 - Most of the GPIO-related userspace components (that I'm dealing with 
   anyway, e.g. x86-power-control and host-error-monitor) already have 
   their own GPIO line-name configuration/remapping mechanisms that need 
   to be set up anyway.

 - There's a solid mix of GPIOs that would be covered by the naming 
   guidelines and others that aren't; having a mix of the two styles 
   seems a bit awkward to me.

That said, I sympathize with the motivation behind it and I'm not 
vehemently opposed on the whole, so if there's a strong preference to 
follow that scheme I could probably be talked into changing it.


Zev