Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] arm64: dts: freescale: move aliases from imx91_93_common.dtsi to board dts

From: Frank Li
Date: Mon Jun 23 2025 - 11:11:06 EST


On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 05:57:29PM +0800, Joy Zou wrote:
> These aliases aren't common and need to drop in imx91_93_common.dtsi.
> The part aliases are moved from imx91_93_common.dtsi to imx91-11x11-evk.dts
> and imx93-11x11-evk.dts for the convenience of customers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joy Zou <joy.zou@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v6:
> 1. add new modification for aliases change.
> ---
> .../boot/dts/freescale/imx91-11x11-evk.dts | 13 +++++++
> .../boot/dts/freescale/imx91_93_common.dtsi | 34 -------------------
> .../boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts | 19 +++++++++++

There are 10 imx93 boards at upstream kernel.

Krzysztof Kozlowski:

In https://lore.kernel.org/imx/4e8f2426-92a1-4c7e-b860-0e10e8dd886c@xxxxxxxxxx/
You provide comments about "no common aliases".

Consider there are 10 imx93 boards. Do you think it is worth to
move it to 10 boards' dts file?

Frank

> 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91-11x11-evk.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91-11x11-evk.dts
> index 0acd97ed14da..52b3f57ba347 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91-11x11-evk.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91-11x11-evk.dts
> @@ -15,7 +15,20 @@ / {
> aliases {
> ethernet0 = &fec;
> ethernet1 = &eqos;
> + gpio0 = &gpio1;
> + gpio1 = &gpio2;
> + gpio2 = &gpio3;
> + i2c0 = &lpi2c1;
> + i2c1 = &lpi2c2;
> + i2c2 = &lpi2c3;
> + mmc0 = &usdhc1;
> + mmc1 = &usdhc2;
> rtc0 = &bbnsm_rtc;
> + serial0 = &lpuart1;
> + serial1 = &lpuart2;
> + serial2 = &lpuart3;
> + serial3 = &lpuart4;
> + serial4 = &lpuart5;
> };
>
> chosen {
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91_93_common.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91_93_common.dtsi
> index 2a2ed0266c1e..7c8c68151b14 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91_93_common.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx91_93_common.dtsi
> @@ -18,40 +18,6 @@ / {
> #address-cells = <2>;
> #size-cells = <2>;
>
> - aliases {
> - gpio0 = &gpio1;
> - gpio1 = &gpio2;
> - gpio2 = &gpio3;
> - gpio3 = &gpio4;
> - i2c0 = &lpi2c1;
> - i2c1 = &lpi2c2;
> - i2c2 = &lpi2c3;
> - i2c3 = &lpi2c4;
> - i2c4 = &lpi2c5;
> - i2c5 = &lpi2c6;
> - i2c6 = &lpi2c7;
> - i2c7 = &lpi2c8;
> - mmc0 = &usdhc1;
> - mmc1 = &usdhc2;
> - mmc2 = &usdhc3;
> - serial0 = &lpuart1;
> - serial1 = &lpuart2;
> - serial2 = &lpuart3;
> - serial3 = &lpuart4;
> - serial4 = &lpuart5;
> - serial5 = &lpuart6;
> - serial6 = &lpuart7;
> - serial7 = &lpuart8;
> - spi0 = &lpspi1;
> - spi1 = &lpspi2;
> - spi2 = &lpspi3;
> - spi3 = &lpspi4;
> - spi4 = &lpspi5;
> - spi5 = &lpspi6;
> - spi6 = &lpspi7;
> - spi7 = &lpspi8;
> - };
> -
> cpus: cpus {
> #address-cells = <1>;
> #size-cells = <0>;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts
> index 8491eb53120e..674b2be900e6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts
> @@ -12,6 +12,25 @@ / {
> model = "NXP i.MX93 11X11 EVK board";
> compatible = "fsl,imx93-11x11-evk", "fsl,imx93";
>
> + aliases {
> + ethernet0 = &fec;
> + ethernet1 = &eqos;
> + gpio0 = &gpio1;
> + gpio1 = &gpio2;
> + gpio2 = &gpio3;
> + i2c0 = &lpi2c1;
> + i2c1 = &lpi2c2;
> + i2c2 = &lpi2c3;
> + mmc0 = &usdhc1;
> + mmc1 = &usdhc2;
> + rtc0 = &bbnsm_rtc;
> + serial0 = &lpuart1;
> + serial1 = &lpuart2;
> + serial2 = &lpuart3;
> + serial3 = &lpuart4;
> + serial4 = &lpuart5;
> + };
> +
> chosen {
> stdout-path = &lpuart1;
> };
> --
> 2.37.1
>