[U-Boot] [RFC] odroid DTB support

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Le 12/10/2015 01:45, Tom Rini a écrit :
> >On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 02:35:24PM +0200, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> >>
> >>Le 09/10/2015 14:23, Przemyslaw Marczak a écrit :
> >>>Hello Guillaume,
> >>>
> >>>On 10/09/2015 02:11 PM, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
> >>>>Hi Przemyslaw,
> >>>>
> >>>>I would like to add DTB support for odroid board to be able to boot
> >>>>upstream kernel easily.
> >>>>
> >>>>I see 2 ways to do it:
> >>>>* Add CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG support to set 'board_rev'
> >>>>and 'board_name' env vars. Then, you need a 'findfdt' script to check
> >>>>'board_rev' and set fdtfile accordingly (as done for OMAP4 panda board)
> >>>>* Set fdtfile name directly (as done for rpi or igep00x0).
> >>>>
> >>>>What would you prefer?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Guillaume
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Is, that the reason of adding the boot script by your last patches?
> >>No, we need a boot script, because this is the way we boot our
> >>openSUSE images (we boot with an initrd and some special bootargs).
> >Hang on, exynos stuff uses the generic distro hooks.  Can you take a
> >look at doc/README.distro and see what openSUSE can hook into / provide
> >some feedback on what needs doing?  Thanks!
> 
> This is true for odroid XU3 (Exynos5 based) but Odroid U3/X2 (Exynos4
> based) has no generic distro hooks at the moment.

No, exynos-common pulls in generic distro.  And in the event of boards
that do not the answer is to pull in the generic distro framework.

-- 
Tom
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