[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 04/11] arm: rpi: Device tree modifications for U-Boot

Simon Glass
2015-08-11T04:17:21Z

Hi Stephen,

On 10 August 2015 at 22:00, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/07/2015 07:42 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> This updates the device tree from the kernel version to something suitable
>> for U-Boot:
>>
>> - Add stdout-path alias for console
>> - Mark the /soc node to be available pre-relocation so that the early serial
>> console works (we need the 'ranges' property to be available)
>
> If you can get these changes into the kernel's copy of the DT, then this
> patch is fine. If not, I don't think we should take this patch. The very
> definition of DT is a SW-stack-agnostic data structure. Modifying it on
> a per-SW-stack basis means we aren't doing DT, but rather something that
> looks like DT but isn't. In that case, we shouldn't call it DT.

The "u-boot," prefix is intended to indicate that it is
U-Boot-specific. Linux has "linux," and 800+ uses of it in the ARM
device tree source files.

I can certainly send this patch to Linux. Given your comment above,
will you take it?

Regards,
Simon