[U-Boot] Unifying device tree filenames, and U-Boot SoC name

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Thierry Reding <
thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:

> * Stephen Warren wrote:
> > I just posted a patch which causes U-Boot to define some variables
> > describing which board you're running on:
> >
> > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-May/124556.html
> >
> > In particular, see the description of that first patch for motivation
> > re: U-Boot scripts.
> >
> > The one issue here is that the U-Boot SoC name for Tegra20 is tegra2
> > (hence it will define board_soc=tegra2), whereas the kernel's device
> > tree files are all tegra-*.dts not tegra2-*.dts.
> >
> > I propose we fix this by:
> >
> > a) In the kernel, renaming tegra*-${board}.dts to tegra20-${board}.dts
> > (or tegra30-${board}.dts). This appears to better match what most other
> > ARM sub-arches are doing anyway.
> >
> > b) In U-Boot, rename the tegra2 support to tegra20 so that U-Boot ends
> > up setting board_soc=tegra20, so this matches the .dts/.dtb filenames.
> > This would involve renaming arch/arm/cpu/armv7/tegra2/ to
> > ./arch/arm/cpu/armv7/tegra20/ and editing boards.cfg to match, and
> > possibly other related changes.
> >
> > This sounds like churn, but I think we could easily fold this into
> > Allen's series that moves the tegra2 directory in order to put it in a
> > common place for separate SPL/non-SPL builds to avoid doing this kind of
> > thing multiple times.
> >
> > Does anyone think this is a good/bad/... idea? Thanks.
>
> I like it. It's better to have the names consistent.
>

Sounds good to me, too.


>
> Thierry
>

Regards,
Simon