Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: dts: ti: Add support for J784S4 EVM board

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Fri Nov 18 2022 - 12:48:07 EST


On 11:40-20221118, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 11/16/22 7:04 AM, Apurva Nandan wrote:

[...]

> > +#include <dt-bindings/net/ti-dp83867.h>
> > +#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
> > +#include "k3-j784s4.dtsi"
> > +
> > +/ {
> > + compatible = "ti,j784s4-evm", "ti,j784s4";
> > + model = "Texas Instruments J784S4 EVM";
> > +
> > + chosen {
> > + stdout-path = "serial2:115200n8";
> > + };
> > +
> > + aliases {
> > + serial2 = &main_uart8;
>
> This feels hacky. Your chosen node picks serial2 as that is usually
> the one that is wired up on K3 boards. But on this board it is main_uart8.
> So why not have this be serial10, then choose
>
> stdout-path = "serial10:115200n8";
>
> Also, I've made comments on previous version of this series, it is
> nice to include folks who have commented before in the CC for future
> versions, that way our filters don't hide these away and we can more
> easily check that our comments have been addressed.

Please stick with the standard of serial2 as the linux console standard.
We ended up with that to ease up capabilities of various distros to
uniformly work across SoC and board variants.

I do agree that phandle is the wrong approach here (baud etc information
missing). "serial2:115200n8" is probably the way to do this right.

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