[U-Boot-Users] fdt chosen node handling

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi,

I am wondering how the device tree "chosen" node should be handled, if it 
already exists in the device tree blob given to U-Boot. When this node 
doesn't exist it gets created and everything is fine. But if it already 
exists, it doesn't get overwritten and the defaults from the device tree blob 
most of the time are not what I really want.

So I would like U-Boot to overwrite the existing chosen node. I discovered 
that the fdt_chosen() function already has this "force" parameter, but it is 
not set in the current U-Boot implementation. I would like to set it for my 
board ports and I am wondering how I should handle this. Should this be done 
via a compile switch (#define), or via an env variable, or...?

Any ideas/comments on this?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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