Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] Add initial support for MA35D1 SoC

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 10:35:25 EST


On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:11 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/05/2022 09:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:25 AM Jacky Huang <ychuang3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch series adds initial support for Nuvoton MA35D1 SoC,
> >> include initial dts and clock controller binding.
> >>
> >
> > This looks fine in principle, but we are getting close to the merge window and
> > should finalize this quickly to make it into v5.19. I see that you don't have a
> > console device, as commented in the .dts patch. Normally I prefer merging
> > platforms only when there is at least rudimentary support for booting into
> > an initramfs with a serial console, but this is a flexible rule.
>
> I disagree. It does not look fine - does not pass `make dtbs_check` even
> with Nuvoton bindings...

Ok, thanks for taking a look. It was already late for 5.19 and missing the uart
driver, so it was clear it had not seen actual runtime testing. Let's try
aiming for 5.20 then.

Arnd