[U-Boot] [PATCH] fdt: Add warning about CONFIG_OF_EMBED

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:08:53PM +0100, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Am 05.12.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Simon Glass:
> >Hi Simon,
> >
> >On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 07:22, Simon Goldschmidt
> ><simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Am 05.12.2018 um 14:57 schrieb Simon Glass:
> >>>This option has crept into use with some boards. Add a warning to try to
> >>>prevent this.
> >>>
> >>>As an example:
> >>>     https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-September/304966.html
> >>
> >>We have just discussed this in another thread. There seem to be ~109
> >>defconfigs in the tree that enable OF_EMBED.
> >>
> >>I doubt all of them do this for fun, so we might want to collect the
> >>reasons they do so. I do know two:
> >>
> >>- socfpga_stratix10_defconfig needs this to get a correct u-boot-spl.hex
> >
> >Let's fix that then.
> >
> >>- I would need it to ensure in SPL, the DTB is in one block with the
> >>other readonly parts. Without OF_EMBED, we have '.text', '.bss', DT.
> >
> >Similarly, let's change that.
> >
> >CONFIG_OF_EMBED should not be a work-around for missing features that we need.
> 
> I'm with you there. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to argue to use
> OF_EMBED, just wanted to list the use cases I know so that we only fix them
> once instead of letting everyone fixing them on their own.

Yes, please, what is the way to fix say this one board?  And can we then
from there try and (semi)automate changing over?

-- 
Tom
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