lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <7df4b349-7126-434a-8ae7-ea2db535e8c2@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:22:26 +0200
From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
To: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@...il.com>,
 Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
 Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>, devicetree
 <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 AML <linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] ARM: dts: amlogic: meson6: delete undocumented nodes

On 16/09/2024 07:57, Christian Hewitt wrote:
>> On 15 Sep 2024, at 11:12 PM, Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 12:19 PM Neil Armstrong
>> <neil.armstrong@...aro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Delete nodes in meson6.dtsi that are clearly undocumented & unused for meson6,
>>> fixing the following check errors:
>>> audio-controller@...0: compatible:0: 'amlogic,aiu' is not one of ['amlogic,aiu-gxbb', 'amlogic,aiu-gxl', 'amlogic,aiu-meson8', 'amlogic,aiu-meson8b']
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/sound/amlogic,aiu.yaml#
>>> audio-controller@...0: compatible: ['amlogic,aiu'] is too short
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/sound/amlogic,aiu.yaml#
>>> /soc/bus@...00000/pwm@...0: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['amlogic,meson-pwm']
>>> /soc/bus@...00000/pwm@...0: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['amlogic,meson-pwm']
>>> phy@...0: compatible: 'oneOf' conditional failed, one must be fixed:
>>>         ['amlogic,meson-mx-usb2-phy'] is too short
>>>         'amlogic,meson-mx-usb2-phy' is not one of ['amlogic,meson8-usb2-phy', 'amlogic,meson8b-usb2-phy', 'amlogic,meson8m2-usb2-phy']
>>>         'amlogic,meson-gxbb-usb2-phy' was expected
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/phy/amlogic,meson8b-usb2-phy.yaml#
>>> phy@...0: compatible: 'oneOf' conditional failed, one must be fixed:
>>>         ['amlogic,meson-mx-usb2-phy'] is too short
>>>         'amlogic,meson-mx-usb2-phy' is not one of ['amlogic,meson8-usb2-phy', 'amlogic,meson8b-usb2-phy', 'amlogic,meson8m2-usb2-phy']
>>>         'amlogic,meson-gxbb-usb2-phy' was expected
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/phy/amlogic,meson8b-usb2-phy.yaml#
>>> /soc/bus@...00000/mmc@...0: failed to match any schema with compatible: ['amlogic,meson-mx-sdio']
>>> mmc@...0: compatible:0: 'amlogic,meson-mx-sdhc' is not one of ['amlogic,meson8-sdhc', 'amlogic,meson8b-sdhc', 'amlogic,meson8m2-sdhc']
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mmc/amlogic,meson-mx-sdhc.yaml#
>>> mmc@...0: compatible: ['amlogic,meson-mx-sdhc'] is too short
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/mmc/amlogic,meson-mx-sdhc.yaml#
>>> remoteproc@1c: compatible:0: 'amlogic,meson-mx-ao-arc' is not one of ['amlogic,meson8-ao-arc', 'amlogic,meson8b-ao-arc']
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/remoteproc/amlogic,meson-mx-ao-arc.yaml#
>>> remoteproc@1c: compatible: ['amlogic,meson-mx-ao-arc'] is too short
>>>         from schema $id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/remoteproc/amlogic,meson-mx-ao-arc.yaml#
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
>> Generally I'm fine with this. I'm wondering if we should go one step
>> further by decommissioning Meson6 support?
>> To be specific here, I'm thinking of removing MACH_MESON6 from
>> arch/arm/mach-meson/Kconfig and deleting meson6{.dtsi,-atv1200.dts}
>>
>> I don't have any boards with Meson6 SoC, there's no upstream GPIO,
>> pinctrl, clock, MMC, <you name it> driver for that SoC either.
>> So all we have upstream is the ability to boot to initramfs and use
>> serial console(s).
>> If someone is interested in Meson6 support they should bring it back
>> along with a few more patches for upstream support of further
>> peripherals.
> 
> I think that’s a sensible move. LibreELEC was one of the few distros
> that supported Meson6 hardware in the past (via the vendor kernel)
> but we ended support in 2018. Meson6 devices are mostly/all? cheap
> Android boxes dating from 2011-2013 and these have either been been
> discarded by users through upgrades or the boxes died long ago. There
> is still community interest in supporting Meson8 boards (the 8x core
> devices are used for retro-gaming) but not the earlier Meson6 ones.

Yeah let's remove meson6 dtsi for v6.13, I'll respin this serie but with
the meson6 removal and some more dts fixes.

Neil

> 
> Christian


Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ