[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] Switch bcm283x platform to use OF_CONTROL

[Stephen Warren]

On 09/26/2016 06:26 AM, Fabian Vogt wrote:
> This patch series modifies the used drivers to work with OF_CONTROL
> and switches the board code and configs to use it.
> The added device trees are directly from the linux kernel tree
> and can thus be used for booting the (upstream) kernel.

Is there a user-visible or developer-visible benefit to this change? In 
general, converting to use DT to instantiate devices simply ends up 
using more code (and hence complexity and time) to get to the exact same 
state afterwards.