Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] arm64: dts: mt7986: add Bananapi R3

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Nov 18 2022 - 16:44:44 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 3:07 AM Frank Wunderlich
<frank-w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 15. November 2022 23:01:20 MEZ schrieb Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> >The device can boot from all 4 storage options. Both, SPI and MMC, can
> >be switched using hardware switches on the board, see
> >https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3#Jumper_setting
> >
> >So why do the SPI-NAND vs. SPI-NOR switching with device tree overlays
> >and the SD card vs. eMMC switching with dtsi + 2x dts? To me this looks
> >inconsitent. Use either one or the other method.
>
> Hi Daniel
>
> It is still in discussion,if mainline-kernel will support devicetree-overlays [1].

No it's not. We're just in the middle of renaming overlay .dts files
to .dtso. Overlays have been supported for the last 1.5 years.

Rob