[U-Boot] [v2 1/1] wandboard: fix dtb file names.

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jul 19 19:43:44 CEST 2016


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 02:32:17PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Adam Duskett <Adamduskett at outlook.com> wrote:
> > With the previous suggestion from Wolfgang Denk, this patch removes
> > the findfdt function from wandboard.h and instead replaces it with
> > some simple logic in wandboard.c.
> >
> > The new function "set_fdtfile" is called in board_late_init.  This
> > function simply finds the length of the dtb file name, allocates
> > enough space for that string, and sets the fdtfile name to that string.
> >
> > This results in slightly shorter / faster script code as well.
> >
> > Dear Adam Duskett,
> >
> > In message <BLU436-SMTP46BCB8C63151CD3166FBD1B9360 at phx.gbl> you wrote:
> >> With the release of kernel 4.1.15 for the imx6 line of processors,
> >> wandboard now uses imx6q-wandboard-revc1.dtb and imx6dl-wandboard-revc1.dtb.
> >> This patch fixes the naming convention to work with kernel 4.1.15
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <adamduskett at outlook.com>
> >> ---
> >> include/configs/wandboard.h | 4 ++--
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/configs/wandboard.h b/include/configs/wandboard.h
> >> index 99f5c0c..d41b600 100644
> >> --- a/include/configs/wandboard.h
> >> +++ b/include/configs/wandboard.h
> >> @@ -135,9 +135,9 @@
> >> "setenv bootargs ${bootargs} ${fbmem}\0" \
> >> "findfdt="\
> >> "if test $board_name = C1 && test $board_rev = MX6Q ; then " \
> >> -     "setenv fdtfile imx6q-wandboard.dtb; fi; " \
> >> +     "setenv fdtfile imx6q-wandboard-revc1.dtb; fi; " \
> >> "if test $board_name = C1 && test $board_rev = MX6DL ; then " \
> >> -     "setenv fdtfile imx6dl-wandboard.dtb; fi; " \
> >> +     "setenv fdtfile imx6dl-wandboard-revc1.dtb; fi; " \
> >> "if test $board_name = B1 && test $board_rev = MX6Q ; then " \
> >> "setenv fdtfile imx6q-wandboard-revb1.dtb; fi; " \
> >> "if test $board_name = B1 && test $board_rev = MX6DL ; then " \
> >
> > Instead of adding to an ever growing list of names, would it not make
> > sense to solve this programmatically, like by concatenating "i" +
> > tolower($board_rev) + "-wandboard-rev" + tolower($board_name) + ".dtb"?
> >
> > I guess this would also result in shorter / faster script code?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Wolfgang Denk
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Adamduskett at outlook.com>
> > ---
> > Changes:
> >
> > v1 - v2:
> >  - Removed findfdt from h file and moved it to init code.
> >
> >
> >  board/wandboard/wandboard.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/configs/wandboard.h | 12 ------------
> >  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> This is not really making things simpler as shown by the diff stat.

But this does show that we need to step back and think about how to more
easily do what this is trying to do.  If $soc was set as in Stefan's
patch for example, we would just need board_name to be being set in
lowercase rather than upper case.

-- 
Tom
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