Re: [PATCH v2 22/35] nds32: Device tree support

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Greentime Hu <green.hu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Greentime Hu <greentime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch adds support for device tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincentc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/nds32/boot/dts/Makefile   |    8 ++++++
>>  arch/nds32/boot/dts/ae3xx.dts  |   55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/nds32/boot/dts/ag101p.dts |   60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/nds32/kernel/devtree.c    |   45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 168 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/nds32/boot/dts/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 arch/nds32/boot/dts/ae3xx.dts
>>  create mode 100644 arch/nds32/boot/dts/ag101p.dts
>>  create mode 100644 arch/nds32/kernel/devtree.c
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/nds32/boot/dts/Makefile b/arch/nds32/boot/dts/Makefile
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..d31faa8
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/nds32/boot/dts/Makefile
>> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
>> +ifneq '$(CONFIG_NDS32_BUILTIN_DTB)' '""'
>
> Built-in dtb's are really for legacy bootloader cases where the
> bootloader doesn't understand dtbs. Do you have that here?
>
> Plus, I don't see any code here to handle the built-in dtb.

I see it is in patch 2. That means patch 2 won't actually compile. You
should move the devtree.c parts at least and maybe the Makefile
infrastructure part too to patch 2. I don't think you need to split
things up so much, but I'll defer to Arnd on that.

Rob