From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tomi.valkeinen@ti.com (Tomi Valkeinen) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:56:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: bus: da8xx-syscfg: new driver In-Reply-To: <278cac52-020f-da2f-54d7-e68d3b71eb65@ti.com> References: <1476721850-454-1-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> <2278105.geKhb8xoNC@avalon> <7h8ttj6jqo.fsf@baylibre.com> <1867292.F3aGJTmS2t@avalon> <7h8tti6c95.fsf@baylibre.com> <278cac52-020f-da2f-54d7-e68d3b71eb65@ti.com> Message-ID: <02b2126b-0348-0b9e-ac91-79fa18657971@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 21/10/16 12:53, Sekhar Nori wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2016 02:55 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> On 20/10/16 22:39, Kevin Hilman wrote: >> >>> However, after our discussion on IRC, we'll respin this without the DT >>> bindings at all. Next version will just use static configuration data >>> in the drivers/bus driver based on SoC compatible string, since for the >>> use-cases I'm aware of, the settings are boot-time only. >> >> If it's static boot time config, why not do it in the u-boot? > > Hardware initialization dependencies with boot-loader are tough to track > and debug. The bootloader thats currently ships with the board may not > have these settings, for example. This forces everyone to update their > bootloader when shifting to mainline kernel. Yep, true... We need something similar for AM335x too. And perhaps for other SoCs too (AM4 comes to my mind). Tomi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: