Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6qdl: make VAR-SOM SoM SoC-agnostic

[Stefan Prisacariu <stefan.prisacariu@prevas.dk>]

On 26/09/2025 00.21, Frank Li wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 12:49:40PM +0200, stefan.prisacariu@prevas.dk wrote:
>> From: Stefan Prisacariu <stefan.prisacariu@prevas.dk>
>>
>> Make SoM .dtsi SoC-agnostic by moving SoC include to board level
>>
>> imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi currently includes imx6q.dtsi, which makes this SoM
>> description Quad/Dual specific and prevents reuse from i.MX6DL boards.
>>
>> Move the SoC selection to the board level:
>>   - Drop the imx6q.dtsi include from the SoM .dtsi.
>>   - Add imx6q.dtsi include to imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts.
> move imx6q.dtsi from imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi to imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts.
>
>> This keeps the SoM .dtsi SoC-agnostic (it already relies on imx6qdl.dtsi
>> for family-common parts) and allows boards using the DualLite or Solo to
>> include imx6dl.dtsi instead.
>>
>> Why this is needed:
>> I need to reuse imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi for a board based on i.MX6DL
>> (VAR-SOM SoM + custom carrier). Without this change, the SoM .dtsi
>> forces imx6q.dtsi, which is incorrect for DL and breaks the layering
>> model used upstream.
> Can use simple words
>
> To reuse imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi on i.MX6DL board.
>
>> Verification:
>> The DTB for imx6q-var-mx6customboard was rebuilt before and after this
>> change. Both the binary DTB and the decompiled DTS
>> (via dtc -I dtb -O dts -s) are identical, confirming no functional change
>> for the existing board.
> Needn't this section (good place for these informaiton is cover letter).
>
>> Alignment:
>> This also aligns the layering with how it is already done for
>> imx6q-var-dt6customboard.dts, where the SoC include is handled at the
>> board level.
> Needn't this section
>
>> No functional changes for imx6q-var-mx6customboard are intended.
> good
>
>> Files were introduced in:
>> commit e5c810848d2a ("ARM: dts: imx6qdl: Add Variscite VAR-SOM-MX6
>> SoM support")
>> commit a5b59a3f41bd ("ARM: dts: imx6q: Add Variscite MX6 Custom board
>> support")
> Needn't this section.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Prisacariu <stefan.prisacariu@prevas.dk>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts | 1 +
>>   arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi         | 3 ---
>>   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts
>> index 18a620832a2a..a55644529c67 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-var-mx6customboard.dts
>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>>
>>   /dts-v1/;
>>
>> +#include "imx6q.dtsi"
>>   #include "imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi"
>>   #include <dt-bindings/pwm/pwm.h>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi
>> index 59833e8d11d8..51bcaf04546b 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6qdl-var-som.dtsi
>> @@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
>>    * Copyright 2022 Bootlin
>>    */
>>
>> -/dts-v1/;
> why drop this line.

As far as I know this line should be present in the dts not dtsi files,
also this will remove the requirement to have this dtsi file first 
included in
the dts files

Stefan

>
> Frank
>> -
>> -#include "imx6q.dtsi"
>>   #include <dt-bindings/clock/imx6qdl-clock.h>
>>   #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
>>   #include <dt-bindings/sound/fsl-imx-audmux.h>
>>
>> base-commit: 8f5ff9784f3262e6e85c68d86f8b7931827f2983
>> --
>> 2.49.1
>>