+Tom too
On 5 October 2016 at 10:48, Fabian Vogt <fv...@suse.com> wrote: > 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) > - Properties are not hardcoded in the u-boot code > - Slightly different hardware deviations do not require significant code > changes (like #ifdef or even new platdatas), just a new dts and Kconfig > adjustments > > It's also mentioned in Simon Glass's talk about DM: > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Order%20at%20last%20-%20U-Boot%20driver%20model%20slides%20(2).pdf > > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot