[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/10] kconfig: move CONFIG_OF_* to Kconfig

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:38:09PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:08:11 -0600
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > > +config OF_EMBED
> > > +       bool "Embedded DTB for DT control"
> > > +       help
> > > +         If this option is enabled, the device tree will be picked up and
> > > +         built into the U-Boot image.
> > 
> > Can you please add " This is suitable for debugging
> > and development only and is not recommended for production devices."
> 
> 
> Why is CONFIG_OF_EMBED not recommended for production devices?

It's kind-of a question for the devicetree folks.  The last time (a
while back now) I asked for some general advice on how a DT should be
shipped with hardware, being able to update the DT without replacing the
whole of firmware was seen as a good thing.  Combine this with that we
should try (yes, we can't today due to incompatible bindings) share the
DT between U-Boot and the kernel (or really, U-Boot and anything but
again, last I checked the BSD bindings were very very different),
embedding doesn't seem good.

-- 
Tom
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