Re: [PATCH 3/9] dt-bindings: riscv: Add MIPS Boston board compatible

[Aleksa Paunovic <aleksa.paunovic@htecgroup.com>]

On 9/17/26 15:23, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2026, Conor Dooley wrote:
>
>>> +    oneOf:
>>> +      - description: Boston FPGA development board with a MIPS P8700 bitfile
>> I'm not convinced that this is specific enough at all.
>> I have absolutely no idea from this description if there's even a
>> specific FPGA involved here - this could mean a bitstream used on an Altera
>> platform or a Xilinx one, with totally different contents.
>> I'm only happy with FPGA bitstream content being supported if it is
>> versioned strictly and matches with some clear and obvious releases from
>> the vendor. I cannot even find this board by googling it, let alone find
>> clear information about what this could correspond to.
>  This stuff has been around for a decade now; cf. commit 6e62a888029b
> ("MIPS: generic: Support MIPS Boston development boards").  Public
> resources have been scarce.  Here's the best one I could track down:
> <https://training.mips.com/cps_mips/Examples/MD00901_Boot-MIPS_Example_Boot_Code_for_MIPS_Cores.pdf>.
> Expect disappointment, but at least there's a photo of the platform (p.
> 142).
>
Thanks, I'll use this for v2!