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

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 25 September 2014 07:18, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 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.

Addressing the binding differences, it's hard to see what these are
right now since the sorting and other churn in the Linux device tree
files. I think it would be good to sync the U-Boot files to the Linux
ones so we can see what bindings still differ.

Regards,
Simon