On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:31:56AM +0100, Paul Barker wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:05:46 +0100 Peter Robinson pbrobinson@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:03 AM Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com wrote:
Configuration which is shared between the BeagleBone Black and derivative boards like the Sancloud BeagleBone Enhanced (BBE) is moved to a common dtsi file to prevent duplication.
Are these being sent upstream to the linux kernel?
The upstream kernel already has am335x-boneblack-common.dtsi and am335x-sancloud-bbe.dts files, since 2016 and 2018 respectively. As these files fell out of sync over 4 years ago I've assumed there is no need to keep them in sync. We could try to resync things but that would lead to an unnecessary risk of breakage, I don't have every BeagleBone Black derivative board on hand to fully test such a resync.
Adding in Lokesh. It would be really good to get as many of these files back in sync again as possible and then keep them in sync periodically. As I don't think there's been any breaking fixes in the dts files again, there shouldn't be any problems.