linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: dts: aspeed: add an alt 128M flash layout

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Message-ID: <aUM5HcEs0OVrDO1w@molberding.nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:13:33 -0800
From: Marc Olberding <molberding@...dia.com>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...econstruct.com.au>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
	openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: dts: aspeed: add an alt 128M flash layout

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 09:29:44AM +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-12-11 at 13:35 -0800, Marc Olberding wrote:
> > Add a 128M layout for the BMC flash chip we didn't boot from.
> > Including
> > this allows the user to write to each partition on the alternate spi
> > chip. This dtsi follows the existing standard of using the same
> > layout
> > as non alt version and prepending `alt` to each partition's name.
> > 
... 
> This may be fine, but please add it in a series that also introduces a
> board that consumes it.
> 
> Andrew

Ack, I wasn't sure how to handle this, since the MSX4 hasn't merged to
master for upstream yet, its just been merged into the openbmc tree.
I can either just hold off on this patch or update the msx4 series.
I'm assuming that including this in a patch targetted to the openbmc tree
is a nonstarter. Any thoughts here?

Thanks,
Marc