Messages in this thread | | | From | Olof Johansson <> | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:54:06 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] arm64: dts: lx2160a: update PCIe nodes to match rev2 silicon |
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:05 AM Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:26 PM Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com> wrote: > > > > The original dts was created based on the non-production rev1 silicon > > which was only used for evaluation. Update the PCIe nodes to align with > > the different controller used in production rev2 silicon. > > How can I confirm what version of silicon I have on a system? > > My non-evaluation commercially purchased system (HoneyComb LX2K) has: > > # cat /sys/bus/soc/devices/soc0/revision > 1.0 > > And I will be really grumpy if this system stops working. It's what I > use to do all my maintainer work, even if that's been fairly dormant > this year. > > It's overall setting off red flags to update an in-place devicetree to > a "new revision" of silicon instead of adding a new DT for said > revision. 2160A has been on the market for several years, so it just > seems odd to all of the sudden retroactively make things > non-backwards-compatible.
Confirmed that this patch renders my HoneyComb unbootable -- PCIe doesn't probe.
Shawn, please revert, and be on the lookout for similar problematic approaches in the future. Thanks!
-Olof
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