[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 05/11] exynos: dts: Adjust device tree files for U-Boot

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jon,

On 6 August 2014 07:56, Jon Loeliger <loeliger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> And these, as you said I think, are HW description things that should be
>>> included in the master DT file upstream, right?
>>
>> Well we only need them because we are added 'reg' properties to the
>> subnodes. There would certainly be no harm in including them upstream.
>> The only bad thing I'm doing is the 'Replicate the ordering' bit. That
>> should just go away once the GPIO numbering doesn't matter anymore
>> (which requires that we use the device tree binding in GPIOs - this is
>> the next step!).
>
>
> HI Simon,
>
> I'm trying to understand what you are saying here.  Specifically, is this
> your solution to the GPIO renumbering problem that I've droning on and
> on about?

No this is unrelated. The existing exynos4 code defines the GPIOs in a
particular order, and the DT has them in a different order (and there
are not aliases to change it). So it's really just a work-around until
we can get away from having GPIO defines in exynos.

Regards,
Simon