Re: [PATCH] clk: renesas: rcar-gen3: disable R-Car H3 ES1.*

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Feb 10 2023 - 04:14:38 EST


Hi Wolfram,

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 10:23 AM Wolfram Sang
<wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> R-Car H3 ES1.* was only available to an internal development group and
> needed a lot of quirks and workarounds. These become a maintenance
> burden now, so our development group decided to remove upstream support
> for this SoC. Public users only have ES2 onwards.
>
> In addition to the ES1 specific removals, a check for it was added
> preventing the machine to boot further. It may otherwise inherit wrong
> clock settings from ES2 which could damage the hardware.
>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you, queuing in renesas-clk-for-v6.3, as this serves as the
main gatekeeper for preventing booting on R-Car H3 ES1.x. Hence
it should go upstream before any of the other R-Car H3 ES1.x quirk
handling is removed (in v6.4).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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