[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] arm: socfpga: Add DT support for SoCFPGA and add socfpga_socrates target

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Masahiro-san,

On 14.11.2014 07:03, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> This patch includes the latest DT sources for socfpga from the current
>> Linux kernel. And enables CONFIG_OF_CONTROL for the new build target
>> "socfpga_socrates" (the EBV SoCrates board) to make use of this new DT
>> support.
>>
>> Until this patch, the only SoCFPGA U-Boot target in mainline is
>> "socfpga_cyclone5". This build target is not (yet) changed to support
>> DT. So nothing changes for this target. Even though the long-term
>> goal should be to move all SoCFPGA targets over to DT.
>>
>> One of the reasons to enable DT support in SoCFPGA is, that I need to
>> support multiple different SPI controllers for this platform. This is
>> the QSPI Cadence controller and the Designware SPI master controller.
>> Both are implemented in the SoCFPGA. And enabling both controllers is
>> only possible by using the new driver model (DM). The DM SPI code
>> only supports DT based probing. So it was easier to move SoCFPGA to
>> DT than to add the (deprecated) platform-data based probing to the
>> DM SPI suport.
>>
>> Note that the image with the dtb embedded is u-boot-dtb.img. This needs
>> to be used now for those DT enabled boards instead of u-boot.img.
>
>
> Since this patch was applied, I see a warning message
>    WARNING: no status info for 'socfpga_socrates'
>    WARNING: no maintainers for 'socfpga_socrates'
> when I run tools/genboardscfg.py
>
>
> I think you should add the maintainership info
>    F:   configs/socfpga_socrates_defconfig
> to somewhere of MAINTAINERS to suppress the warning message.

Yes, should be done. Not sure where I should add such information 
though. We don't have a board directory for this socrates board (yet). 
And the toplevel MAINTAINERS file seems to be reserved for the custodian 
entries.

Any ideas / suggestions welcome.

Thanks,
Stefan