Wolfgang Denk wrote:
So you vote for keeping duplicated versions of the dts both in U-Boot and in Linux?
I vote for having it in u-boot only. The linux blob will be present only for kernels with a requirement to boot on non-OF firmware.
This will be some boards. SO we would have some boards where the dts is in U-Boot, and some others were it is in the Linux kernel? And if you want to use a board with different boot loaders, then...
...then we have a mess.
Why can't we have dts compiled into 'vmlinux' perhaps marked as __init (or something like it). If kernel is going to patch it anyway, why do we pass a static file from u-boot?
I guess OF based system can omit compiling the dts into 'vmlinux' or if bootlooder passes a tree compiled in dts would be ignored/freed if present.
Best regards, Tolunay