Re: [PATCH v2 04/19] dt-bindings: arm: move AT91 to generic Microchip binding

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 15/12/2025 17:35:21+0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> > Create a new binding file named microchip.yaml, to which all Microchip
> > based devices will be moved to.
> >
> > Start by moving AT91, next will be SparX-5.
>
> Both lines of SoCs are designed by different business units and are
> wildly different and while both business units are currently owned by
> the same company, there are no guarantees this will stay this way so I
> would simply avoid merging both.

Hi Alexandre,

The merge was requested by Conor instead of adding a new binding for LAN969x [1]

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20251203122313.1287950-2-robert.marko@xxxxxxxxxx/

Regards,
Robert

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robert.marko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/arm/{atmel-at91.yaml => microchip.yaml}       | 7 ++-----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >  rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/{atmel-at91.yaml => microchip.yaml} (98%)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/atmel-at91.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/microchip.yaml
> > similarity index 98%
> > rename from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/atmel-at91.yaml
> > rename to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/microchip.yaml
> > index 88edca9b84d2..3c76f5b585fc 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/atmel-at91.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/microchip.yaml
> > @@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> >  %YAML 1.2
> >  ---
> > -$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/arm/atmel-at91.yaml#
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/arm/microchip.yaml#
> >  $schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> >
> > -title: Atmel AT91.
> > +title: Microchip platforms
> >
> >  maintainers:
> >    - Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >    - Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >    - Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > -description: |
> > -  Boards with a SoC of the Atmel AT91 or SMART family shall have the following
> > -
> >  properties:
> >    $nodename:
> >      const: '/'
> > --
> > 2.52.0
> >
>
> --
> Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com



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