[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] serial: sh: Add support for R7S72100 (RZ/A1)

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 02:31:36 UTC 2018


On 01/19/2018 07:26 PM, Chris Brandt wrote:
> On Friday, January 19, 2018, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> But as for DT, I think that's still a bit overkill for RZ/A series.
>>
>> Why so?
> 
> Honestly, I don't see the value in it for small embedded systems.
> 
> u-boot has a specific job and is compiled for a specific board. There is
> no need for multi board booting.

For now at least, it'd be real neat to have one u-boot build for generic
rz/a1 , concatenate DT to it and be done with a board port.

> I think moving things DM is OK, but that's because it's all done in the 
> same code that gets compiled today (no separate build steps).
> 
> And...then you have 3 things to customize:
> 1. config file (legacy .h file)  because not everything is moved into 
>    Kconfig
> 2. menuconfig (for the stuff that has been moved)
> 3. DT (for a few things)
> 
> 
> Chris
> 


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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