[U-Boot] is it mandatory for SPL to support DM

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 5/25/20 7:32 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:58:12PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 9:06 PM Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 04:35, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/25/20 10:44 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>>>> SPL has a foot-print constraint, so fully switching a particular
> >>>>> subsystem like SPI or SPI Flash to DM would increase the size of it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Possible areas to look at are (assume SPL_DM supported)
> >>>>> 1) platdata
> >>>>> 2) implement board or platform specific spl device driver which
> >>>>> bypassed the actual framework ex: spl_spi_sunxi.c
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do we have any other solutions? or any arguments on above step 2?
> >>>>
> >>>> SPL does not need to support DM until the size problem is solved.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think the problem will ever be 'solved'. It is an ongoing battle.
> >>>
> >>> But as it happens I've just sent a proposal for tiny-dm that I think will help.
> >>>
> >>> Jagan, which board are you trying to convert? If you are trying to
> >>> convert SPI flash, I think we need to remove the legacy code first.
> >>
> >> These are the partially dm converted drivers, so boards which are
> >> using can eventually need a dm spi switch.
> >>
> >>         drivers/spi/fsl_dspi.c
> >>         drivers/spi/kirkwood_spi.c
> >>         drivers/spi/mxc_spi.c
> >>         drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> >>         drivers/spi/omap3_spi.c
> >>         drivers/spi/sh_qspi.c
> >>
> >> I'm looking for proper options along with removal of some legacy code,
> >> and tiny-dm.
> > 
> > For the number of about to be year past published deadline (which has
> > been extended at times to get to that point even) boards, I think we
> > need to start by dropping boards.  Then we can see what makes sense
> > moving forward.
> 
> At least mxc_spi and sh_qspi must stay, since those are heavily used in
> embedded/industrial/automotive.

So, this brings us back to the main topic of this thread.  Both of the
drivers you mention ARE converted to DM, but cannot fit adding DM to
SPL.  Where do we put non-DM SPL code as we have real size constraints
in SPL/TPL?  I should bring this up in Simon's new thread too, but I
wonder if we shouldn't just make drivers/spl/{mmc,spi,xxx}/ and have the
non-DM-framework drivers for SPL reside somewhere and move on.  The
notions of "we have a nice abstract framework" and "we need to be as
small as possible" can and do conflict.

-- 
Tom
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 659 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20200525/063f780d/attachment.sig>