From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/20] arm: rpi: Enable USB and Ethernet driver model Raspberry Pi
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:25:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPnjgZ0ucjh3Ppe-06vCGGfXiQ0Y8ZtGS9_C_BK4e3JGososEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150716141009.GC29918@amd>
Hi Stephen,
On 16 July 2015 at 08:10, Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
> On Mon 2015-07-13 22:52:58, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 07/11/2015 08:04 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> > Hi Stephen,
>> >
>> > On 10 July 2015 at 23:34, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> >> On 07/07/2015 08:53 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> >>> Raspberry Pi uses a DWC2 USB controller and a SMSC USB Ethernet adaptor.
>> >>> Neither of these currently support driver model.
>> >>>
>> >>> This series does the following:
>> >>> - Move Raspberry Pi to use device tree control (u-boot-dtb.bin instead of
>> >>> u-boot.bin)
>> >>
>> >> I'd strongly prefer not to do this. For one thing, it means we'd need
>> >> different U-Boot builds for each of the different RPi models, and we
>> >> currently don't need that (or perhaps we require users to create their
>> >> own u-boot-dtb.bin by choosing the right DTB to append). If it
>> >
>> > Why does device tree change how things work now? The get_board_rev()
>> > function currently deals with this. It doesn't look like rpi_board_rev
>> > is used anywhere else.
>>
>> Without a DT, the code is free to make all the board-rev-specific
>> decisions at run-time without external influence.
>>
>> With a DT, we either have to:
>>
>> a) Pick the DT for one particular board and use that everywhere, even if
>> it's incorrect for the actual board in use.
>
> Is that an option? I mean... if you can tolerate incorrect values for
> something, perhaps that something should not be in the dtb in the
> first place?
>
>> b) Build a different U-Boot + DTB image for each board-rev, and put the
>> correct one on the SD card.
>
> d) Build U-Boot + set of DTB images, then pick up the right one at the
> runtime?
>
>> Neither of those options seem like a good idea to me.
>
> Stuff that can be autodetected does not belong to the device tree...
>
> Pavel
> --
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Stephen please can you update here? It seems to me that there is no
requirement to add a lot of stuff to the device tree which we already
have code to auto-detect.
I'd like to pull in these changes but can hold off on the rpi parts
until we figure this out.
Regards,
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-20 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 2:53 [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/20] arm: rpi: Enable USB and Ethernet driver model Raspberry Pi Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/20] dm: net: Support usbethaddr environment variable Simon Glass
2015-07-08 4:04 ` Joe Hershberger
2015-07-08 20:31 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 20:43 ` Joe Hershberger
2015-07-08 21:07 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-20 13:56 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-20 18:10 ` Joe Hershberger
2015-07-21 21:25 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/20] dm: usb: Allow USB Ethernet whenever CONFIG_DM_ETH is not defined Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/20] dm: usb: Add an errno.h header to usb_ether.c Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:31 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/20] dm: usb: Prepare dwc2 driver for driver-model conversion Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:31 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/20] dm: usb: Add driver-model support to dwc2 Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/20] net: smsc95xx: Sort the include files Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/20] net: smsc95xx: Rename AX_RX_URB_SIZE to RX_URB_SIZE Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/20] net: smsc95xx: Correct the error numbers Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/20] net: smsc95xx: Prepare for conversion to driver model Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/20] net: smsc95xx: Add driver-model support Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/20] dm: serial: Update binding for PL01x serial UART Simon Glass
2015-07-08 22:00 ` Vikas MANOCHA
[not found] ` <1436324032-17931-12-git-send-email-sjg-F7+t8E8rja9g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-15 9:00 ` Linus Walleij
2015-07-15 9:00 ` [U-Boot] " Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <CACRpkdb=t21=qpqar5VXd4mtqTWrq6MvoX1OsVgmWpkyFqhj3w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-15 9:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-07-15 9:38 ` [U-Boot] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-07-15 10:08 ` Linus Walleij
2015-07-15 10:08 ` [U-Boot] " Linus Walleij
[not found] ` <CACRpkdakAVcBT8phhbFjE+mkfA0pTcHYiaL0dV4UNieH54fd+w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-15 10:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-07-15 10:17 ` [U-Boot] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-07-16 7:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-07-16 7:41 ` [U-Boot] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-10-19 7:19 ` Linus Walleij
2015-10-19 7:19 ` [U-Boot] " Linus Walleij
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/20] dm: Support address translation for simple-bus Simon Glass
2015-07-27 23:32 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 13/20] arm: rpi: Define CONFIG_TFTP_TSIZE to show tftp size info Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 14/20] arm: rpi: Bring in kernel device tree files Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 15/20] arm: rpi: Device tree modifications for U-Boot Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 16/20] arm: rpi: Enable device tree control for Rasberry Pi Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 17/20] arm: rpi: Drop the UART console platform data Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/20] arm: rpi: Drop the GPIO " Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 19/20] arm: rpi: Move to driver model for USB Simon Glass
2015-07-08 2:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 20/20] arm: rpi: Use driver model for Ethernet Simon Glass
2015-07-11 5:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/20] arm: rpi: Enable USB and Ethernet driver model Raspberry Pi Stephen Warren
2015-07-11 14:04 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-14 4:52 ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-14 15:44 ` Simon Glass
2015-07-24 4:17 ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-24 13:44 ` Tom Rini
2015-07-28 3:10 ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-28 13:55 ` Tom Rini
2015-07-28 15:44 ` Simon Glass
2015-08-01 3:10 ` Stephen Warren
2015-08-01 3:01 ` Stephen Warren
2015-07-16 14:10 ` Pavel Machek
2015-07-20 14:25 ` Simon Glass [this message]
2015-07-24 4:20 ` Stephen Warren
2015-08-03 23:45 ` Marek Vasut
2015-08-04 0:07 ` Simon Glass
2015-08-04 0:37 ` Marek Vasut
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