Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: nxp/imx6: Drop unused .dtsi

From: Marco Felsch

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 10:06:27 EST


On 26-11-05 08:49, 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>
> ---
> v2:
> - Rebased
>
> It's been nearly a year and these are still orphans. There was a promise
> to upstream something for the kontron ones, but that hasn't happened.

That's unfortunate, but these includes are used at least by the barebox
bootloader [1,2], dropping these would cause a DT regresssion.

Would it help to upstream [1,2]?

Regards,
Marco

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/barebox/v2026.10.0/source/arch/arm/dts/imx6dl-samx6i.dts#L8
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/barebox/v2026.10.0/source/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-samx6i.dts#L8

>
> .../dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi | 12 -----
> .../dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i.dtsi | 12 -----
> .../boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-dwarf.dtsi | 45 ----------------
> .../boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-nymph.dtsi | 54 -------------------
> 4 files changed, 123 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-dwarf.dtsi
> delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-nymph.dtsi
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 5a9b819d7ee8..000000000000
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6dl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR X11
> -/*
> - * Copyright 2019 (C) Pengutronix, Marco Felsch <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - */
> -
> -#include "imx6dl.dtsi"
> -#include "imx6qdl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi"
> -
> -/ {
> - model = "Kontron SMARC-sAMX6i Dual-Lite/Solo";
> - compatible = "kontron,imx6dl-samx6i", "fsl,imx6dl";
> -};
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e76963436079..000000000000
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-kontron-samx6i.dtsi
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR X11
> -/*
> - * Copyright 2019 (C) Pengutronix, Marco Felsch <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - */
> -
> -#include "imx6q.dtsi"
> -#include "imx6qdl-kontron-samx6i.dtsi"
> -
> -/ {
> - model = "Kontron SMARC-sAMX6i Quad/Dual";
> - compatible = "kontron,imx6q-samx6i", "fsl,imx6q";
> -};
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-dwarf.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-dwarf.dtsi
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 3a968782e854..000000000000
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-dwarf.dtsi
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR MIT
> -//
> -// Copyright 2017 NXP
> -
> -#include "imx6qdl-pico.dtsi"
> -
> -/ {
> - leds {
> - compatible = "gpio-leds";
> - pinctrl-names = "default";
> - pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpio_leds>;
> -
> - led {
> - label = "gpio-led";
> - gpios = <&gpio5 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> - };
> - };
> -
> -};
> -
> -&i2c1 {
> - mpl3115@60 {
> - compatible = "fsl,mpl3115";
> - reg = <0x60>;
> - };
> -};
> -
> -&i2c2 {
> - io-expander@25 {
> - compatible = "nxp,pca9554";
> - reg = <0x25>;
> - gpio-controller;
> - #gpio-cells = <2>;
> - #interrupt-cells = <2>;
> - };
> -
> -};
> -
> -&iomuxc {
> - pinctrl_gpio_leds: gpioledsgrp {
> - fsl,pins = <
> - MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT13__GPIO5_IO31 0x1b0b0
> - >;
> - };
> -};
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-nymph.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-nymph.dtsi
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 3d56a4216448..000000000000
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-pico-nymph.dtsi
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR MIT
> -
> -#include "imx6qdl-pico.dtsi"
> -
> -/ {
> - leds {
> - compatible = "gpio-leds";
> - pinctrl-names = "default";
> - pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_gpio_leds>;
> -
> - led {
> - label = "gpio-led";
> - gpios = <&gpio5 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
> - };
> - };
> -
> -};
> -
> -&i2c1 {
> - adc@52 {
> - compatible = "ti,adc081c";
> - reg = <0x52>;
> - vref-supply = <&reg_2p5v>;
> - };
> -};
> -
> -&i2c2 {
> - io-expander@25 {
> - compatible = "nxp,pca9554";
> - reg = <0x25>;
> - gpio-controller;
> - #gpio-cells = <2>;
> - #interrupt-cells = <2>;
> - };
> -};
> -
> -&i2c3 {
> - rtc@68 {
> - compatible = "dallas,ds1337";
> - reg = <0x68>;
> - };
> -};
> -
> -&pcie {
> - status = "okay";
> -};
> -
> -&iomuxc {
> - pinctrl_gpio_leds: gpioledsgrp {
> - fsl,pins = <
> - MX6QDL_PAD_CSI0_DAT13__GPIO5_IO31 0x1b0b0
> - >;
> - };
> -};
> --
> 2.53.0
>