[RFC 0/4] drivers: footprint reduction proposal

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 06:11:36PM -0300, Walter Lozano wrote:

> Based on several reports and discussions it is clear that U-Boot's
> footprint is always a concern, and any kind of reduction is an
> improvement.
> 
> This series is a proposal to  help reducing the footprint by parsing
> information provided in DT and drivers in different ways and adding
> additional intelligence to dtoc. The current version implements the basic
> functionality in dtoc but this is no fully integrated, however it will allow
> us to discuss this approach.
> 
> Firstly, based on the compatible strings found in drivers, include only DT nodes
> which are supported by any driver present in U-Boot.
> 
> Secondly, generate struct udevice_id entries only for nodes present in DT,
> which will allow to avoid including additional data.
> 
> These are the first steps for further improvements as proposed in the specific
> patches in this series.
> 
> This work is based on the work of Simon Glass present in [1] which adds
> support to dtoc for parsing compatible strings.
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/tree/dtoc-working

I applied this series on top of the above tree, but there's no rule for
<generated/compatible.h> so is something missing?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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