[U-Boot] [PATCH 66/93] arm: Remove ot1200 board

[Simon Goldschmidt]

Am Do., 22. Nov. 2018, 14:44 hat Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> geschrieben:

> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 02:24:49PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 11/22/2018 01:52 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:25:14AM +0100, Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> > >
> > >> Am Mo., 19. Nov. 2018 um 16:56 Uhr schrieb Simon Glass <
> sjg at chromium.org>:
> > >>>
> > >>> This board has not been converted to CONFIG_DM_BLK by the deadline.
> > >>> Remove it.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> As the board is still mainted I will NAK it for the moment. Are there
> > >> any hints want needs to be done
> > >> to port thie board over to new DM stuff?
> > >
> > > Yes, as a start you need to switch over to using CONFIG_OF_CONTROL and
> > > selecting/providing a dtb file.  I see ot1200 is using DWC_AHSATA which
> > > needs more work, but this is the board-level work that needs doing.
> >
> > Wasn't there a possibility to use platform data in board file instead of
> > DT ? Or is DT mandatory now , including the libfdt overhead ?
>
> In short, DT for U-Boot and platform data for SPL is what's recommended,
> yes.
>

This is a little confusing for me. Socfpga gen5 SPL doesn't do that. And it
seems a little strange or outdated overall.

Would there be some kind of reference architecture or mach to look at
what's the suggested/up-to-date way to implement SPL? Also regarding code
flow?

Simon

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