Hi Simon, Tom,

I assume the approach you are taking is also valuable for the i2c: omap24xx patch serie:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-January/241676.html

What are your recommendation about the pending patches ?
Should i send back only the one not taking care of the DM conversion and send another serie later ?

I have seen some work ongoing on this topic on the u-boot-fdt tree on the spl-working branch.
Is there a more accurate place to follow this work ?

Best Regards
Christophe

On 26/01/2016 02:55, Peng Fan wrote:
Hi Simon,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 06:11:24PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
+Hans

Hi Tom,

On 21 January 2016 at 05:24, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:46:15PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
+Mugunthan, Tom

On 17 January 2016 at 03:56, Christophe Ricard
<christophe.ric...@gmail.com> wrote:
Convert omap3_spi driver to DM and keep compatibility with previous
mode.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Ricard <christophe-h.ric...@st.com>
---

  drivers/spi/Kconfig     |   6 +
  drivers/spi/omap3_spi.c | 439 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
  drivers/spi/omap3_spi.h |  14 +-
  3 files changed, 402 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
This is a pretty painful conversion, with lots of #ifdefs. I think it
would be possible to use a common pointer type and reduce this.

But perhaps it does not matter - how long must we be in the state of
supporting legacy SPI? Can we convert all TI boards to driver model?
We _really_ need some way to support more than one board per binary
before we can move everything to DM only.

I think we can kind of do this today if we stick to using platform data
for everything that's board-specific rather than SoC-defined.  What we
talked about at ELCE was auto-generating the pdata from the device tree,
I think.
We discussed this on IRC but since that doesn't exist as far as the
mailing list is concerned...

The current plan is:

- Adjust build system to optionally build a u-boot.img in FIT format
that includes the U-Boot binary and >1 device tree files
- Adjust SPL to load this
- Add a way for SPL to determine which device tree to select (by
calling a board-specific function)
- Have SPL pass this selected device tree to U-Boot when it starts
Can dtb be sperated from the final u-boot.img, if using SPL?
I mean let SPL load the u-boot.img and the dtb to correct DRAM address.
And the dtb is shared with linux kernel.

Regards,
Peng.
Thus we should be able to support more than one board with a single
U-Boot image. Of course this is not a perfect solution (e.g. it is
inefficient since the DTs are likely to be largely the same) but it
should be a good first step.

I'm going to try this out with sunxi initially and plan to get some
patches out by the end of the week.

Regards,
Simon
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