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

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:44:30AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

Yes, agreed.

-- 
Tom
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