[PATCH] dt-bindings: serial: 8250: add marvell,armada-38x-uart compatible
From: Rosen Penev
Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 20:42:47 EST
The Armada 38x and 98DX3236 SoCs use this compatible, either paired
with "ns16550a" (armada-38x.dtsi) or on its own
(armada-xp-98dx3236.dtsi). Neither form is covered by the 8250
binding, so dtbs_check reports:
serial@12000: failed to match any schema with compatible:
['marvell,armada-38x-uart', 'ns16550a']
Add a standalone const entry and a two-string variant paired with
"ns16550a".
Validated with make dt_binding_check (8250.yaml) and dt-validate on
armada-38x and armada-xp 98DX3236 boards: the UART schema errors are
gone.
Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
index 8c2c177faf89..f71c6afe02f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.yaml
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ properties:
- const: aspeed,ast2500-vuart
- const: intel,xscale-uart
- const: mrvl,pxa-uart
+ - const: marvell,armada-38x-uart
- const: nuvoton,wpcm450-uart
- const: nuvoton,npcm750-uart
- const: nvidia,tegra20-uart
@@ -119,6 +120,9 @@ properties:
- exar,xr16l2551
- exar,xr16l2550
- const: ns8250
+ - items:
+ - const: marvell,armada-38x-uart
+ - const: ns16550a
- items:
- enum:
- altr,16550-FIFO32
--
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