Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: bus: da8xx-syscfg: new driver

Tomi Valkeinen
2016-10-21T09:57:10Z

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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

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