[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] fdt: Add support for embedded device tree (CONFIG_OF_EMBED)

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jason,

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jason <u-boot at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:45:59AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

[snip]
>> > 5.) run, then 'date' fails like so:
>> >
>> > find_alias_node: rtc0
>> > fdt_decode_next_alias failed.
>> > Error decoding fdt for mvrtc.
>> > ## Get date failed
>>
>> I don't actually see an alias in your fdt. And actually I left it out
>> of mine, so that is understandable. For i2c I have:
>>
>> ...
>>       aliases {
>>               i2c0 = "/i2c at 0x7000d000";
>>               i2c1 = "/i2c at 0x7000c000";
>>               i2c2 = "/i2c at 0x7000c400";
>>               i2c3 = "/i2c at 0x7000c500";
>>       };
>
> That worked!
>
> Marvell>> date
> find_alias_node: rtc0
> Date: 2011-09-14 (Wednesday)    Time: 14:04:54
> Marvell>>
>

Great!

>> So I think you need to add a /alias node and try again. I can submit a
>> new patch set with this and a couple of other things I want to change,
>> but it would be good if you can get to the end first, in case you find
>> other problems.
>
> I'll clean up what I have and post it RFC.

OK good

>> > I had the remove your fdt_decode_i2c() and clock.h include.  The clock.h
>> > include seems to be specific to the tegra2 and doesn't exist for
>> > kirkwood.
>>
>> Yes that's right, it is just an example at this stage, and the idea of
>> a periph_id is specific to Tegra at present. Patches 5 and 6 are just
>> an example to show how to use it in code.
>
> Ok, I'll drop those from my branch to make a cleaner example.

Yes, ideally I would like to keep SOC-specific things out of it at
this stage, but I was asked for an example and had to choose
something! My hope is that we can have the base patch and then a
couple of architecture patches.
>
> thx,
>
> Jason.
>