Re: [PATCH v10 00/18] Support spread spectrum clocking for i.MX8M PLLs

From: Dario Binacchi
Date: Fri Apr 11 2025 - 04:42:04 EST


On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 12:27:49PM +0100, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> >This version keeps the version v9 patches that can be merged and
> >removes the patches that will need to be modified in case Peng's
> >PR https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/154 is accepted.
> >The idea is to speed up the merging of the patches in the series
> >that have already been reviewed and are not dependent on the
> >introduction of the assigned-clocks-sscs property, and postpone
> >the patches for spread spectrum to a future series once it becomes
> >clear what needs to be done.
> >
> Although I give R-b, there is an idea just come out in my mind that this
> might break OS distribution that use firmware(e.g. U-Boot) to publish
> device tree for Linux Kernel, such as ARM System-Ready complaint OS.
> I overlooked this point in previous patchset reviewing.
>
> Since this patchset is to move anatop stuff to a new driver to reflect
> the HW truth. And requires new entries in CCM node, so old bootloader
> with new kernel will not boot for OS distribution, such as Fedora/openSuse.
>
> Not sure how to keep backwards support as before. Leave to maintainers
> to say if they are ok with this.

Many thanks to Peng for the review, and a gentle ping to the maintainers.
This series has been ongoing for a few months and has reached version 10,
thanks to the reviews from Krzysztof and Peng.
I kindly ask you to consider it as well.

Thanks and regards,
Dario

>
> Regards,
> Peng



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