Date:   Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:07:57 +0800
From:   Sui Jingfeng <15330273260@....cn>
To:     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>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        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>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        chenhuacai@...nel.org, Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        liyi@...ngson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/7] MIPS: Loongson64: dts: introduce ls3A4000
 evaluation board


On 2022/3/23 10:29, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>
>
> 在 2022/3/23 1:53, Sui Jingfeng 写道:
>> 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.
> Hi,
>
> I insist my taste on those code. If the only intention is to demonstrate
> the usage of the driver then please just leave them in dt document
> or commit message.
>
>>
>> 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?
> Note that we are supporting all those boards on "platform" bias. Which
> means if they share similar design then they will use the same DTS.
> If we have a new design then unfortunately our kernel binary must grow.
>
> For those who intended to build a size-optimized kernel they will be
> able to disable unused DTS in Kconfig.
>
> If you want to blame somebody for the problem then please don't
> blame us. We tried very hard to fit all those stuff into kernel's model
> of devices. You should blame those who did the initial design of
> Loongson's boot interface that failed to introduce a proper way
> to describe the platform.
>
>>
>> Besides, ls7a1000 and ls2k1000 lack a i2c driver, gpio driver,
>> pwm driver, clk driver, can you pay more attention to salve those
>> problems, please ?
> Are you trying to make a TODO list for your colleague :-)
>
> We , community developers, don't owe you anything. So please
> don't expect anything from us. I lost access to most Loongson
> devices since I'm currently study abroad, but I'm determined to
> keep platform code in a good shape. That's my duty as a maintainer.
>
> Thanks.
> - Jiaxun

Providing a few board specific dts doesn't hurt anybody.

Can we leave the problem(passing correct dts to the kernel) untouched and

solve it in the feature with a another patch, ok?

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