Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Initial Apple M3 Pro, Max and Ultra device trees

On 7/15/26 02:11, Janne Grunau wrote:
> This series adds device trees for Apple silicon devices with M3 Pro, Max
> and Ultra SoCs. The M3 generation has fewer devices than their M1 and M2
> predecessors. The only non-laptop device is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio. The
> Laptops are the known 14 and 16-inch Macbook Pros now with M3 Pro and
> M3 Max SoCs. The M3 Max variant with fewer CPU and GPU cores has
> additionally only a 384-bit wide memory bus instead of 512-bit of the
> full M3 Max. It has a separate identifier (T6034) and so there are six
> laptop device trees.
> Another difference to M1 and M2 Pro/Max/Ultra is that the M3 Pro is
> distinct SoC design and not a smaller M3 Max. For this reason both M3
> Max variants and the M3 Ultra will use "apple,t6030" as compatible
> prefix. In the M1 and M2 generations Pro, Max and Ultra SoCs shared
> "apple,t6000" / "apple,t6020" as common prefix. There is currently no
> known difference but M3 Pro and M3 Max are not as closely related as
> previously.
> 
> This series adds the same level of hardware as the base M3 (T8122) has
> in v7.2-rc1. This includes CPU cores, interrupt controller, power
> states, watchdog, serial, pin controller, i2c and the boot framebuffer.
> This is intended as base so that support for additional hardware can be
> added to all M3 based devices at the same time.
> 
> Merge strategy:
> Since the dt-binding add new compatible strings without driver changes
> it would be preferred if the whole [1] series would be merged through
> apple-soc/arm-soc. This will help ensuring a warning free
> `make dtbs_check` for followup series with additional M3* hardware
> support I hope to send for this cycle.
> 
> This series will conflict with the M4 series [3] sent A couple of days
> ago. I would prefer if this could be merged first (in order of SoC
> release).
> 
> [1]: I see that the M4 watchdog change was already picked up by Guenter
>       in [2]
> 

Whatever one does with individual patches in such series seems to be
wrong. Are you saying that I should drop the M4 (t8132) patch from
the watchdog-next branch ?

Guenter