On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephen Warren wrote at Monday, August 15, 2011 2:28 PM:
>> ...
>> This patch modifies Tegra's device tree support to remove the dependency
>> on harmony_pinmux_init(), thus making it completely board-independent.
>
> I had the good fortune of meeting Grant at LinuxCon last week and talked
> through this patchset a little (thanks!)
>
> The message I got from Grant was that the patches are basically OK. He
> did have a couple of concerns:
>
> * Does this cause the compiled DTB to blow up in size.
>
> The DTB goes from ~3-4K to ~8-9K with these patches added. While that
> is a large % increase, Grant said that as an absolute value, that size
> shouldn't be an issue.
Agreed, especially if compared with the size of the current in-kernel table.
> * There's lots of repetition in the .dts representation; can this be improved?
>
[...]
> meaningless-name { // typically would just use the pin name
> pins = "ld0", "ld1", "ld2", ...;
> nvidia,function = "displaya";
> nvidia,pull-down;
> };
That sounds quite close to what I was thinking about earlier (with
s/meaningless-name/displaya/ in the above example).
> * We also briefly discussed that dtc could be modified to support symbolic
> constants, so we could use named integers for the function names (perhaps
> pin names too). I'll look into how easy it is to modify dtc for this.
That'd be useful, I think -- there's still the whole issue of the same
pin function being at different mux locations on different pin groups,
so an integer representation might not work.
> I'll look into implementing these enhancements, and others discussed in
> this email thread, and repost.
Cool.
-Olof
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