Draft: Add support for ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500

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Draft because this is untested and I'm not sure the implementation is right. This path probably only works on Samsung devices, and yet it assumes that all devices with the st-ericsson,u8500 compatible have it.

Related: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2173

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By Newbyte on 2023-06-28T14:08:27

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By Newbyte on 2023-06-28T14:10:46

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By Newbyte on 2023-06-28T14:22:25

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By Newbyte on 2023-06-28T14:29:36

If U-Boot can read those partitions it might be nicer to read them from there and then patch the device tree. That way it works on all distributions by default and it's also Samsung-specific (since the U-Boot port covers all the Samsung U8500 devices only).

By Minecrell on 2023-07-11T19:58:06

@Linusw, do you think that sounds sensible?

By Newbyte on 2023-07-11T19:59:23

Yeah makes perfect sense, we probably should add some template default 00:00:00... MAC to the DTS with the comment that it shall be overwritten by the boot loader. Look at my commit for the display detection for how we augment the device tree i U-Boot: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/board/ste/stemmy/stemmy.c

By Linus Walleij on 2023-07-12T20:54:30

If you are going for the U-Boot approach (which is way nicer!), is this MR still applicable then?

By Dylan Van Assche on 2023-07-13T18:10:24

No, the U-Boot approach sounds like a better idea.

By Newbyte on 2023-07-14T14:27:05

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