[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] socfpga: Modify qts-filter args to allow input for bsp generated files and quartus project directories

Marek Vasut
2016-01-12T02:48:14Z

On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 01:50:18 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 01:31 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 01:26:58 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 15:33 -0800, Dalon Westergreen wrote:
> [...]
>
> > btw. Completely off-topic, but is there any chance altera will
> > release the
> > algorithm to compute these magic values which are in the header files
> > from
> > the base values inserted into the HPS component in QSys ?
>
> I would not suggesting that as Qsys and Quartus are doing heavylifting
> tasks there. The value would depends on the options being choosed,
> device type, device revision (if any). They also being patched from
> time to time too.

Is it all really _that_ complicated ? That's why I'd like to see the code
that's doing all that computation. Even if it's done at compile-time, it'd
still be better than the horrible headers which we have to use now.

> > I think we might
> > just put these values into OF and do the computation in U-Boot on-the
> > -fly.
> > This would also remove the need for this script.
>
> Slightly off topic, I am thinking to move all these generated files
> into DTS too. This will have some out of box experience as Arria10 SoC.
> But that might be challenging in term of resources. We might still
> stick with this script for good.

See above.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut