Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: add support for imx8mp-frdm board

[Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>]

This series has review feedback, could you respin it?

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 05:42:33PM +0100, Fabian Pfitzner wrote:
> Add support for the imx8mp-frdm board. This patch assumes that Barebox
> already offers board support, which is not the case yet. See [1].
> Wait for it to be merged.
> 
> Furthermore, the kernel device-tree is not yet upstream [2].
> Wait for it to be merged.
> 
> This patch stack imports it and additionally adds more features to it.
> 
> The board offers an IW612 WiFi chip, which requires an extra firmware
> provided by the imx-firmware repository. I already sent a patch upstream
> that integrates this as a package [3]. Wait for it to be merged.
> 
> Besides the firmware, the WiFi chip also needs the mwifiex driver. This
> driver is already contained in the upstream Linux kernel, but does
> not support the IW612 chip yet. Instead of backporting downstream driver
> changes, that add support for this chip, I decided to wait for upstream
> support. Otherwise, we would have several downstream patches in
> DistroKit.
> 
> [1] https://lore.barebox.org/barebox/20260119-fpf-imx8mp-frdm-v1-0-13fac69eda23@pengutronix.de/T/#t
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux.git/commit/?h=imx/dt64&id=bb5b318f11e6f41c8cbb51848555f58b9ef175e6
> [3] https://lore.distrokit.org/distrokit/20260120085919.3684175-2-f.pfitzner@pengutronix.de/T/#u
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Fabian Pfitzner (6):
>       v8a: add imx8mp-frdm image
>       v8a: enable imx8mp-frdm image
>       v8a: barebox: enable imx8mp-frdm board
>       v8a: kernel: add imx8mp-frdm dts
>       v8a: kernel: import imx8mp-frdm device tree
>       doc: add imx8mp-frdm
> 
>  configs/platform-v8a/barebox.config                |   4 +
>  ...ts-add-support-for-NXP-i.MX8MP-FRDM-board.patch | 409 +++++++++++++++
>  ...dts-imx8mp-frdm-import-downstream-changes.patch | 580 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  configs/platform-v8a/patches/linux-6.18/series     |   5 +
>  configs/platform-v8a/platformconfig                |   3 +-
>  .../platform-v8a/platforms/image-imx8mp-frdm.in    |  10 +
>  configs/platform-v8a/rules/image-imx8mp-frdm.make  |  35 ++
>  doc/hardware_v8a_imx8mp_frdm.rst                   |  46 ++
>  8 files changed, 1091 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 5efb124c6eecc8b70ced77a22fb14084311afb8f
> change-id: 20260120-fpf-imx8mp-frdm-e0a34fe63a6a
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Fabian Pfitzner <f.pfitzner@pengutronix.de>
> 
> 
> 

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