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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts
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On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:52 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

>> +/ {
>> + chosen {
>> + stdout-path = &blsp1_uart2;
>> + };
>
> It would be good if we had the configuration too (see
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt), as that avoids any
> reliance on kernel defaults.
>
> You can refer to an alias, so this could be:
>
> aliases {
> serial0 = &blsp1_uart2;
> };
>
> chosen {
> stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
> };
>
> ...assuming that 115200n8 is correct for your UART, of course.
>
>
> […]

Where is the code that actually handles this parsing? I’m not see it in early_init_dt_scan_chosen_serial and I don’t believe fdt_path_offset does anything special with ‘:'

>
>> +#include "skeleton.dtsi"
>
> I'd like to get rid of skeleton.dtsi; it causes more problems than it
> solves (the address/size cells mismatch is confusing and hidden, people
> forget to fill in memory nodes appropriately, etc).
>
> Please remove this include and place appropriate #address-cells and #size-cells here.
>
> I'd strongly recommend going with /#size-cells = <2>; it' will save on a
> lot of pain if you need to add PCIe or something with large ranges
> later. If things all fall in 4GB within the SoC then have
> /soc/#size=cells = <1> and an appropriate /soc/ranges property.
>
> I note this DT doesn't have any memory nodes. Is that an accident or
> does the loader fill that in?

it was coming out of skeleton.dtsi

>
> If the latter, have an empty node with a comment to that effect.

I’ll kill off usage of skeleton.dtsi

- k
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