[Letux-kernel] Status LX16

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 22.12.2024 um 19:25 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> Am Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:55:28 +0100
> schrieb "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com>:
> 
>> One other aspect which could be better than it is, is the management of the device tree for variants. We still have a single lx16.dtb
>> which must be compiled into the kernel binary. Even if we had multiple .dtb in /boot. I still have no idea how to manage that
>> better than we did so far with #if in the DTS file.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the u-boot can load a dtb from file, the one
> in the kernel is only a fallback.

Well, when starting the X1600 project we investigated that but it did not work.
Something was fundamentally different for MIPS from ARM.

I do not exactly remember what it was.

Maybe that the other ingenic devices (CI20 and others) are all expected to
be configured for builtin-dtb. And then the LX16 would fall out of the scheme.
Or that the arch/mips/boot/ingenic/Makefile can't do that or something...

BR,
Nikolaus