Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] arm64: dts: marvell: Add Armada 98DX2530 SoC and RD-AC5X board

From: Chris Packham
Date: Tue Jun 07 2022 - 20:59:44 EST



On 8/06/22 00:07, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 02:49:36PM +0300, Vadym Kochan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/marvell/Makefile | 1 +
>>> .../boot/dts/marvell/armada-98dx25xx.dtsi | 297 ++++++++++++++++++
>>> .../boot/dts/marvell/armada-98dx35xx-rd.dts | 101 ++++++
>>> .../boot/dts/marvell/armada-98dx35xx.dtsi | 13 +
>> There is a proposal from the Marvell to replace "armada-" prefix to "ac5-" in DTS naming as there
>> is no much common with Armada SoC's.
> O.K. We can do this. But i hope it is not Marvell being lazy.
>
> I can also see an advantage of using armada-, since it makes it clear
> we are talking about mainline device tree files, not Marvell vendor
> device tree files. It is not given they will be compatible.

We'll still have the 98dx25xx suffixes so it should still be distinct
from the Marvell SDK ones. Also hopefully once this lands upstream it
will encourage Marvell to update their SDK to a newer kernel.