From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:00:20 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 04/11] arm: rpi: Device tree modifications for U-Boot In-Reply-To: <1438954951-13329-5-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> References: <1438954951-13329-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> <1438954951-13329-5-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> Message-ID: <55C97354.1010409@wwwdotorg.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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.