[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/8] sandbox: fdt: Add support for CONFIG_OF_CONTROL

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Jan 23 08:32:13 CET 2012


On Monday 23 January 2012 00:27:56 Simon Glass wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 January 2012 19:45:45 Simon Glass wrote:
> >> This adds support for a controlling fdt, mirroring the ARM
> >> implementation.
> > 
> > OK, but what's the point if we aren't doing FDT's ?
> 
> Aren't we?

i don't see FDT's getting used anywhere in this patch or this patch series.  
so no, we aren't currently doing FDT's in sandbox.

> I hope that sandbox provides a way of testing the FDT
> stuff. I used it for the fdtdec alias stuff which was complicated
> enough that it needed unit tests.

if it actually can be used/tested under sandbox, then i'm fine with this.  but 
can that actually be done now or are other things necessary first ?

> We need to enable these options to bring in that code, even if we don't
> actually have a run-time FDT yet.

i don't see how run-time FDT's would be used by sandbox ...
-mike
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