Hi Masahiro,

On 4 October 2016 at 21:51, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote:
>
> 2016-10-05 9:25 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>:
> > For boards that need U-Boot-specific additions to the device tree, it is
> > a minor annoyance to have to add these each time the tree is synced with
> > upstream.
> >
> > Add a means to include a file (e.g. u-boot.dtsi) automatically into the .dts
> > file before it is compiled.
> >
> > The file uses is the first one that exists in this list:
> >
> >    arch/<arch>/dts/<board.dts>-u-boot.dtsi
> >    arch/<arch>/dts/<cpu>-u-boot.dtsi
> >    arch/<arch>/dts/<vendor>-u-boot.dtsi
> >    arch/<arch>/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > Suggested-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Add a new patch to automatically include a U-Boot .dtsi file
> >
> > Changes in v2: None
> >
> >  scripts/Makefile.lib | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > index 2539ba5..b414a0c 100644
> > --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > @@ -164,6 +164,17 @@ cpp_flags      = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) 
> > $(UBOOTINCLUDE)     \
> >
> >  ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(ldflags-y)
> >
> > +dts_dir = $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/dts
> > +
> > +# Try these files in order to find the U-Boot-specific .dtsi include file
> > +binman_dtsi_options = $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(basename $(notdir 
> > $<))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(subst $\",,$(CONFIG_SYS_CPU))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(subst 
> > $\",,$(CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/u-boot.dtsi)
> > +
> > +# We use the first match
> > +binman_dtsi = $(firstword $(binman_dtsi_options))
> > +
>
>
> I do not think this feature is binman-specific.
>
> Perhaps u_boot_dtsi?
>
> We are already suffering from U-Boot specific properties like
> "u-boot,dm-pre-reloc", which make it difficult to
> simply copy DT files from the kernel tree.
> So, my first guess was this feature might be useful
> to split such properties out to *-u-boot.dtsi.
> (it is a trade-off of more and more DT files, though.)

Yes that was Tom's intent. True, it is not binman-specific and I'm
happy to change the variable, but let's see if this solves the problem
first.

Regards,
Simon
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