From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/10] kconfig: move CONFIG_OF_* to Kconfig
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:49:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140926134901.GS25506@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ35Q4BAVnPJTrAutEtnkHvQQV5hXq3+KdoJ0Fr_e3roSA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:44:30AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25 September 2014 07:18, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:38:09PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:08:11 -0600
> >> Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > +config OF_EMBED
> >> > > + bool "Embedded DTB for DT control"
> >> > > + help
> >> > > + If this option is enabled, the device tree will be picked up and
> >> > > + built into the U-Boot image.
> >> >
> >> > Can you please add " This is suitable for debugging
> >> > and development only and is not recommended for production devices."
> >>
> >>
> >> Why is CONFIG_OF_EMBED not recommended for production devices?
> >
> > It's kind-of a question for the devicetree folks. The last time (a
> > while back now) I asked for some general advice on how a DT should be
> > shipped with hardware, being able to update the DT without replacing the
> > whole of firmware was seen as a good thing. Combine this with that we
> > should try (yes, we can't today due to incompatible bindings) share the
> > DT between U-Boot and the kernel (or really, U-Boot and anything but
> > again, last I checked the BSD bindings were very very different),
> > embedding doesn't seem good.
>
> Addressing the binding differences, it's hard to see what these are
> right now since the sorting and other churn in the Linux device tree
> files. I think it would be good to sync the U-Boot files to the Linux
> ones so we can see what bindings still differ.
Yes, agreed.
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 10:59 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/10] kconfig: move CONFIG_OF_* to Kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2014-09-22 10:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 10/10] kconfig: move CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE to kconfig Masahiro Yamada
2014-09-24 23:09 ` Simon Glass
2014-09-25 8:06 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-09-25 13:49 ` Simon Glass
2014-09-25 14:46 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, " Tom Rini
2014-09-24 23:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/10] kconfig: move CONFIG_OF_* to Kconfig Simon Glass
2014-09-25 7:12 ` Michal Simek
2014-09-25 7:38 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-09-25 13:18 ` Tom Rini
2014-09-25 13:44 ` Simon Glass
2014-09-26 13:49 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-09-26 14:52 ` Stephen Warren
2014-09-26 15:24 ` Tom Rini
2014-09-26 15:35 ` Stephen Warren
2014-09-26 18:33 ` Simon Glass
2014-10-02 13:09 ` Masahiro Yamada
2014-10-04 2:20 ` Simon Glass
2014-09-25 14:46 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, " Tom Rini
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