[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/8] arm: socfpga: fix device trees to work with DM serial

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 03:29:30PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 08/13/2018 03:28 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 03:25:19PM +0200, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Device trees need to have the serial console device available
> >>>> before relocation and require a stdout-path in chosen at least
> >>>> for SPL to have a console.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt@gmail.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Changes in v3:
> >>>> - moved uart0's "u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;" from socfpga.dtsi to board
> >>>>   specific dts files since this can change per board
> >>>
> >>> Why are these not in socfpga-u-boot.dtsi ?  We have the mechanism to
> >>> grab CONFIG_SYS_CPU/CONFIG_SYS_SOC/CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR-u-boot.dtsi
> >>> automatically so that we don't have to modify the files we sync in from
> >>> upstream.
> >>
> >> Ehrm, I don't know, really. The DTS files for socfpga already have
> >> many U-Boot specifics and are quite different to Linux. It might make
> >> sense to sync them, but do we really have to do this for 2018.09?
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that this series exists to fix that 2018.07 broke on these boards.
> > 
> > Well, I think given that you're adding these changes right now, they
> > should be added to the correct file so that they aren't lost on re-sync
> > later.  It would be adding:
> > &uart0 {
> >        u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
> > };
> > 
> > once to arch/arm/dts/socfpga-u-boot.dtsi rather than for every board.
> 
> Pulling the U-Boot specific crap would be most welcome, but it could be
> a separate patch.

So you want to add stuff now and pull it out later?  That seems counter
intuitive, but sure, you're the custodian here.  When do you plan to do
the clean-up, for v2018.11?

-- 
Tom
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