Re: [PATCH] arm/arm64: dts: renesas: Drop unused .dtsi

[Jacopo Mondi]

Hi Laurent, Rob

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 03:20:37PM +0900, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> CC'ing Jacopo.
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 02:32:07PM -0600, Rob Herring (Arm) wrote:
> > These .dtsi files are not included anywhere in the tree and can't be
> > tested.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../renesas/gr-peach-audiocamerashield.dtsi   |  75 ----
>
> Jacopo, any opinion on this ? Should it be conevrted to an overlay, or
> dropped ?
>

Running Linux in the 10MB SRAM of the GR-Peach using XIP was
challenging enough and I don't have an easy access to that setup
anymore.

I think we can drop this one, and resubmit as a .dtso eventually, if
anyone ever needs it

Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
  j


> >  .../dts/renesas/r8a77xx-aa121td01-panel.dtsi  |  39 --
>
> I don't have access to this panel any more. I'm fine dropping this
> .dtsi, it can always be resurrected and converted to an overlay if
> someone needs it.
>
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/gmsl-cameras.dtsi | 332 ------------------
>
> This would be nice to turn into an overlay, but I'm not sure anyone
> still cares.
>
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m0.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m2.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m4.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m6.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m7.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m8.dtsi     |  17 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779mb.dtsi     |  12 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g044c1.dtsi  |  25 --
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g044l1.dtsi  |  18 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g054l1.dtsi  |  18 -
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a09g047e37.dtsi |  18 -
>
> I'll let Geert comment on this :-)
>
> >  14 files changed, 614 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/renesas/gr-peach-audiocamerashield.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/renesas/r8a77xx-aa121td01-panel.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/gmsl-cameras.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m0.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m2.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m4.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m6.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m7.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779m8.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r8a779mb.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g044c1.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g044l1.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a07g054l1.dtsi
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/arm64/boot/dts/renesas/r9a09g047e37.dtsi
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart