Re: architecture-specific FDT devices

Yuri Honegger <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Sep 2025 14:31:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Am 09.09.2025 um 14:01 schrieb Robert Swindells <[email protected]>:
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> Yuri Honegger <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As already discussed a few days ago, I've been trying to get FDT working
>> with armv5.
> 
> How much support for the SoC that you want to use is in the tree already?

My ultimate goal is the lego mindstorms EV3. It doesn’t seem to have a lot of support. However, I also have access to an imx23-olinuxino, which is supported. My plan is to do it in two steps: Get the imx23-olinuxino working using device trees, and then work on the ev3.

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> I suspect that it would be less work for you to not use FDT at all for
> an armv5 device.

I agree. However, the discussion on this list from Thursday suggests a FDT-based implementation would be preferred. 

As I’m just doing it for fun, I don’t really mind if it takes a bit longer.