On 21/10/16 12:53, Sekhar Nori wrote: > On Friday 21 October 2016 02:55 PM, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> On 20/10/16 22:39, Kevin Hilman wrote: >> >>> However, after our discussion on IRC, we'll respin this without the DT >>> bindings at all. Next version will just use static configuration data >>> in the drivers/bus driver based on SoC compatible string, since for the >>> use-cases I'm aware of, the settings are boot-time only. >> >> If it's static boot time config, why not do it in the u-boot? > > Hardware initialization dependencies with boot-loader are tough to track > and debug. The bootloader thats currently ships with the board may not > have these settings, for example. This forces everyone to update their > bootloader when shifting to mainline kernel. Yep, true... We need something similar for AM335x too. And perhaps for other SoCs too (AM4 comes to my mind). Tomi
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