[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers; add DM_NO_OF Kconfig option

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 28 01:45:12 UTC 2018


+Tom

Hi Angelo,

On 27 May 2018 at 01:22, Angelo Dureghello <angelo at sysam.it> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 04:18:57PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi Angelo,
>>
>> On 3 May 2018 at 16:01, Angelo Dureghello <angelo at sysam.it> wrote:
>> > To be able to build spi driver with DM support, a new config
>> > option has been introduced (DM_NO_OF) since m68k architecture
>> > does not support fdt.
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Changes from v1:
>> > - split into 2 patches
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Angelo Dureghello <angelo at sysam.it>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/Kconfig             |  1 +
>> >  drivers/core/Kconfig     |  4 ++++
>> >  drivers/spi/spi-uclass.c | 12 +++++++-----
>> >  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>>
>> Is it possible to use SPL_OF_PLATDATA instead?
>>
> I have seen that setting, but my understanding is that
> SPL_OF_PLATDATA ws made for a different purpose, and also, i
> tried to use it, but cannot select it from menuconfig.
>
>> How come m68k cannot use device tree?
>>
> There was never any devicetree implementation, probably becouse it
> is missing on Linux too.

It is a real shame that we can't do better than that.

I've added Tom in for comment as I'm not sure what is best here.

Regards,
Simon


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