Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] Add minimal Exynos8895 SoC and SM-G950F support

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 02:00:07PM +0300, Ivaylo Ivanov wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This series adds initial SoC support for the Exynos 8895 SoC and also
> initial board support for Samsung Galaxy S8 phone (SM-G950F), codenamed
> dreamlte.
> 
> The Exynos 8895 SoC is also used in S8 Plus (dream2lte), Note 8 (greatlte)
> and Meizu 15 Plus (m1891). Currently DT is added for the Exynos 8895 SoC
> and dreamlte, but it should be really easy to adapt for the other devices
> with the same SoC. It has been tested with dtbs_check W=1 and results
> in no warnings.
> 
> The support added in this series consists of:
> * cpus
> * pinctrl
> * gpio
> * simple-framebuffer
> * pstore
> 
> This is enough to reach a minimal initramfs shell using an upstream kernel.
> More platform support will be added in the future.
> 
> The preferred way to boot this device is by using a small shim bl called
> uniLoader [1], which packages the mainline kernel and DT and jumps to
> the kernel. This is done in order to work around some issues caused by
> the stock, and non-replacable Samsung S-Boot bootloader. For example,
> S-Boot leaves the decon trigger control unset, which causes the framebuffer
> to not refresh. 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/ivoszbg/uniLoader
> 

FYI,
It is too late in the cycle for me to pick up any of these patches.
Also due to some travel and events, I might be slower in review, but I
will review them before next merge window opens.

Best regards,
Krzysztof