linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] MIPS: Loongson64: dts: introduce ls3A4000 evaluation board

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Message-ID: <YjsYM0M24VhkCHwG@robh.at.kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:53:07 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Sui Jingfeng <15330273260@....cn>
Cc:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Roland Scheidegger <sroland@...are.com>,
        Zack Rusin <zackr@...are.com>,
        Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@...ca-geosystems.com>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@...m.mit.edu>,
        Qing Zhang <zhangqing@...ngson.cn>,
        suijingfeng <suijingfeng@...ngson.cn>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] MIPS: Loongson64: dts: introduce ls3A4000
 evaluation board

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:53:14AM +0800, Sui Jingfeng wrote:
> 
> On 2022/3/23 00:06, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 在 2022/3/22 13:38, Sui Jingfeng 写道:
> > > 
> > > On 2022/3/22 21:05, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 在 2022/3/21 16:29, Sui Jingfeng 写道:
> > > > > From: suijingfeng <suijingfeng@...ngson.cn>
> > > > > 
> > > > > The board name is LS3A4000_7A1000_EVB_BOARD_V1.4, it consist of 1.8Ghz
> > > > > mips64r5 4-core CPU and LS7A1000 bridge chip. It has PCIe
> > > > > GEN2 x8 slot,
> > > > > therefore can play with discrete graphics card.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Jingfeng,
> > > > 
> > > > As we've discussed before if you are going to introduce new dts
> > > > then you *MUST*
> > > > include it in makefile and wire it up in code.
> > > > 
> > > > A dts file doing nothing lying in the tree is just suspicious.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > - Jiaxun
> > > > 
> > > Hi, Jiaxun,
> > > 
> > > I know what you means, but it is the kernel side developer's job.
> > > I am just a naive graphic driver developer,I can not care so much.
> > > Below is my private patch which can be used to built specific dts
> > > into the linux kernel, therefore make the verification easier.
> > Hi Jingfeng,
> > 
> > In kernel world we take care all the stuff we touched ourself :-)
> > 
> > If you are not confident with them please drop those DTS from the
> > patchset
> > besides the generic one. I can do the rest for you after getting this
> > set merged.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > - Jiaxun
> > 
> Hi, Jiaxun
> 
> Build all dts into vmlinuz will make the vmlinuz bigger and bigger.
> How does the kernel get the dtb is another big issue, either from built-in
> dtb or pass from the firmware(pmon and uefi etc). This should be
> solved with another patch carefully. Providing board specific dts
> helps to code review, it helps reviewers understand that there are
> variant boards and have to be express with different OF graph.

Built-in DTBs are for legacy bootloaders that don't understand DT. I 
would not expect a new platform to need this.

> 
> Now, there are about 6 dts under arch/mips/boot/dts/loongson/,
> Suppose loongson have 1000+ different board, do you want built all
> of them into vmlinuz?

The point was to add the .dts to Makefile so it builds, not so it is 
built-in. How are you testing those build with dtc and dtschema if not 
added to kbuild?

Rob