Hi Cristian,
please try to avoid unsolicited new version posts, in particular shortly
after the previous version.
It's not like maintainers and reviewers twiddling their thumbs waiting
for new patches, so please give everybody enough time to have a look.
I'd say a few days at least.
If you find issues in your own patches, please reply on the list,
pointing this out. And then still wait for proper reviews before reposting.
On 10/22/26 07:55, Cristian Filipescu via B4 Relay wrote:
Add a device tree and a separate defconfig for the Orange Pi 3 LTS. The
LTS has an H6, 2 GiB LPDDR3, 8 GiB eMMC and a Motorcomm YT8531C Ethernet
PHY, with power and reset wiring different from the original Orange Pi 3.
The device tree is based on Jernej Skrabec's Linux submission:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/[email protected]/
Which had comments, so have those been addressed?
It lives under arch/arm/dts until the board description is merged into
Please don't do this. If there is a mainline DTS pending, move that into
dts/upstream anyway, that way we don't have two versions of patches to
deal with. We don't take non-mainline DTs anyway, so the support has to
wait until the .dts ended up in a tagged mainline Linux release, then we
can cherry-pick that DT patch. Compare U-Boot commit 4112b26537cf04 for
an example.
For the sake of getting the (defconfig) patch out, and allow people to
play with that, it's fine to post, but in a setup that matches the final
submission.
Linux and reaches dts/upstream. The current dts/upstream H6 SoC and OPP
includes are reused. The original authorship and sign-off are retained.
Clock naming, regulator supply chaining and BLDO3 always-on corrections
from the earlier review are included. Ethernet uses the Motorcomm driver
with rgmii-id, zero MAC delays and explicit 1950 ps RX/TX PHY delays, as
proposed during the Linux review. This configuration has been tested on
the board with DHCP and ICMP.
That level of detail here and below smells like an LLM having been
unleashed. I don't think it's necessary wasting people's time with
details that are also shown in the diff.
If there is something surprising, it's worth mentioning here, but in
general I would expect a simple defconfig and .dts post to not cause
much problems.
Cheers,
Andre
Validation (including the earlier board build):
- Cross-build the revised orangepi_3_lts_defconfig with GCC 14.2.0 and
TF-A v2.13.0 (sun50i_h6, DEBUG=1). Cross-build the original
orangepi_3_defconfig too; its handoff hook remains an empty return.
- Verify the LTS DT model, Ethernet configuration and final combined FIT.
- Match the new defconfig to savedefconfig output.
- Check both patches with checkpatch.pl --strict, excluding only the
FILE_PATH_CHANGES warning: board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS is updated, but
checkpatch recognises only a top-level MAINTAINERS change.
The GPIO LEDs are enabled in main U-Boot, with green PL7 on and red
PL4 off. The early SPL LED is disabled. At the OS handoff immediately
after "Starting kernel ...", the LTS-specific board_quiesce_devices()
hook switches green off and red on. Linux's LED defaults retain those
states; diagnostic userspace clears both before starting the shell.
Cristian confirmed this sequence on the corrected 60d788d7056c build:
green in main U-Boot, red at the kernel handoff, both off in the shell.
On-board testing of the pre-LED-change U-Boot 2026.10-gc8f95275fc8f:
- Reaches the console and reports 2 GiB RAM.
- Enumerates SD at 50 MHz/4-bit and eMMC at 52 MHz/8-bit.
- Obtains a DHCP lease and pings two LAN hosts successfully. The control
device tree confirms phy-mode = "rgmii-id".
- Enumerates EHCI, OHCI and XHCI root hubs. External USB peripherals have
not been tested.
The submitted v1 (11d60b7149e6) also loaded a mainline Linux Image, DTB
and initramfs from SD and reached a RAM shell with four CPUs and 2 GiB
RAM. Its test-kernel configuration caused a PMIC I2C failure; Linux
peripheral validation remained pending in that first test.
The v2 build (f5a667df5ada) now boots Linux with CONFIG_MODULES=y into
the RAM shell. Linux initializes the AXP806, enumerates SD and eMMC,
registers eth0 and all USB host root hubs. The YT8531 PHY links at
1 Gbps/full duplex; DHCP, DNS and an IPv6 Internet ping passed on that
build. Two direct 8 MiB reads from each of SD and eMMC compared
identical under Linux. Two cold starts with LED, shell and Ethernet
checks were confirmed on the final build. Both LEDs were confirmed off
in the diagnostic shell. Sustained transfer, external USB peripherals
and HDMI remain untested.
The local test builds omit optional Crust firmware; suspend is not tested.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Filipescu <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
- Enable GPIO LEDs in main U-Boot; drop early SPL status activation.
- Add board-specific U-Boot DT overrides: green on, red off.
- Set shared Linux defaults to retain green off and red on.
- Switch green off and red on in the LTS OS handoff hook at Starting kernel.
- Retain the original two-patch DTS/defconfig series structure.
- Link to v1:
https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
Cc: Cristian Filipescu <[email protected]>
Cc: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
Cc: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Cc: Jernej Skrabec <[email protected]>
---
Cristian Filipescu (1):
sunxi: Add Orange Pi 3 LTS defconfig
Jernej Skrabec (1):
arm: dts: sunxi: Add Orange Pi 3 LTS device tree
arch/arm/dts/Makefile | 1 +
arch/arm/dts/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts-u-boot.dtsi | 11 +
arch/arm/dts/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts | 362 ++++++++++++++++++++++
board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS | 7 +
board/sunxi/board.c | 19 ++
configs/orangepi_3_lts_defconfig | 19 ++
6 files changed, 419 insertions(+)
---
base-commit: 62c9805d8d57cad407f0295879cc9a6182da464a
change-id: 20261021-sunxi-orangepi-3-lts-2fa76de6f361
Best regards,
--
Cristian Filipescu <[email protected]>
