[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] ARM: DRA7: AM57xx: Enable SPL_DM

[Lokesh Vutla]

On Wednesday 08 February 2017 06:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:03:31PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> 
>> - Enable SPL_DM on all DRA7 and AM57xx based platforms.
>> - SPL uses a generic dts on all platforms with same defconfig.
>> - After this series SPL size is increased by ~7KB.
> 
> That's not a bad size growth, esp here where we can afford it.  Did you

Yeah, but I am worried about this size on am335x.

> experiment with going the board-data way?  Also it looks like we're

hmm.. IIUC, board-data is duplication of same data that is available in
DT. Anyways all the unsed nodes in DT are removed for SPL case. So, I
used this approach.

> going the same DT for U-Boot proper now, will this work long term?  Or
> do you need to switch to having U-Boot itself be loaded from a FIT image
> and given the correct board dtb?  Thanks!

The DT that is being introduced in this series will be used only by SPL.
For U-Boot proper, a FIT image will be built using OF_LIST. I don't
think we need to switch.

Thanks and regards,
Lokesh