From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] Switch bcm283x platform to use OF_CONTROL
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 21:42:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shs87os3.fsf@eliezer.anholt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5195146.vhkPzrWSSn@pebbles.site>
Stefan Bruens <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> On Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2016 12:32:12 CEST Eric Anholt wrote:
>> Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> writes:
>> >> Am 05.10.2016 um 18:48 schrieb Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2016, 09:54:46 CEST schrieb Stephen Warren:
>> >>> On 09/26/2016 06:26 AM, Fabian Vogt wrote:
>> >>>> This patch series modifies the used drivers to work with OF_CONTROL
>> >>>> and switches the board code and configs to use it.
>> >>>> The added device trees are directly from the linux kernel tree
>> >>>> and can thus be used for booting the (upstream) kernel.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there a user-visible or developer-visible benefit to this change? In
>> >>> general, converting to use DT to instantiate devices simply ends up
>> >>> using more code (and hence complexity and time) to get to the exact same
>> >>> state afterwards.
>> >>
>> >> There are various reasons, like:
>> >>
>> >> - The device tree describes the platform, so it can also be used by the
>> >>
>> >> linux kernel for configuration (no separate dtb needed)
>> >
>> > With a bit of lobbying, we might even be able to get a working dt from
>> > the rpi firmware. That again would enable awesome things like hat
>> > support in u-boot :).
>>
>> I can't imagine the firmware handing any DT off to the kernel other than
>> the one that's being shipped from whatever kernel is being loaded.
>> Being able to update the DT in lockstep with the kernel is very much
>> part of their process. (This makes linux insisting that DT is ABI that
>> must maintain backwards compat quite painful for upstreaming)
>>
>> Given that the firmware already hands the kernel's DT back to the
>> kernel, it seems like we should be able to load the kernel's DT too if
>> we wanted that.
>
> You mean the DT modified by the firmware according to config.txt, at least
> applying the specified DT overlays?
Yeah, that.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 12:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] Switch bcm283x platform to use OF_CONTROL Fabian Vogt
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/9] gpio: bcm2835: add device tree support Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:32 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:33 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,1/9] " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] serial: bcm283x_mu: " Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:34 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:34 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/9] serial: pl01x: expose skip_init platdata option in DT Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:34 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:34 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/9] fdt: add dt-bindings for bcm2835 Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:34 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:34 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,4/9] " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/9] fdt: import bcm283x device tree sources from the linux kernel tree Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:34 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:35 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/9] fdt: adjust bcm283x device tree for u-boot Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:35 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:35 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/9] serial: bcm283x_mu: support disabling after initialization Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:35 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:36 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/9] board: rpi: move uart deactivation to board_init Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:35 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:37 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, " Tom Rini
2016-09-26 12:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 9/9] ARM: bcm283x: use OF_CONTROL for bcm283x Fabian Vogt
2016-09-27 0:35 ` Simon Glass
2016-11-29 17:37 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,9/9] " Tom Rini
2016-10-05 15:54 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] Switch bcm283x platform to use OF_CONTROL Stephen Warren
2016-10-05 16:48 ` Fabian Vogt
2016-10-05 16:51 ` Simon Glass
2016-10-05 20:28 ` Alexander Graf
2016-10-06 19:32 ` Eric Anholt
2016-10-06 23:22 ` Stefan Bruens
2016-10-07 4:42 ` Eric Anholt [this message]
2016-10-07 20:42 ` Tom Rini
2016-10-07 21:59 ` Stefan Bruens
2016-11-16 13:43 ` Fabian Vogt
2016-11-25 19:45 ` Simon Glass
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