[PATCH v2 1/3] doc: Tidy up the bindings for the config/ node

Marcel Ziswiler marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com
Mon Aug 30 16:45:42 CEST 2021


On Sat, 2021-08-28 at 10:46 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Sort these and add a type so it is clear how to set the value. Add a note
> about usage to the top. Correct the 'no-keyboard' binding which is missing
> a prefix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> Note that some uses a u-boot prefix and some don't. Once [1] is applied
> we may want to update this to always use the prefix, or never. Another
> option would be to call the node u-boot,config. and drop the prefix. This
> has the advantage of complying with the devicetree spec, at little cost.
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20210807132413.3513724-2-sjg@chromium.org/
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Add a new patch to tidy up the /config bindings
> 
>  doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt | 46 ++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt b/doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt
> index 6cdc16da5b5..61ae18f8239 100644
> --- a/doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt
> +++ b/doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt
> @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ A number of run-time configuration options are provided in the /config node
>  of the control device tree. You can access these using fdtdec_get_config_int(),
>  fdtdec_get_config_bool() and fdtdec_get_config_string().
>  
> -Available options are:
> -
> -silent-console
> -       If present and non-zero, the console is silenced by default on boot.
> +These options are designed to affect the operation of U-Boot at runtime.
> +Runtime-configuration items can help avoid proliferation of different builds
> +with only minor changes, e.g. enabling and disabling console output. Items
> +here should be those that can usefully be set by the build system after U-Boot
> +is built.
>  
> -no-keyboard
> -       Tells U-Boot not to expect an attached keyboard with a VGA console
> +Available options are:
>  
> -u-boot,efi-partition-entries-offset
> +u-boot,efi-partition-entries-offset (int)
>         If present, this provides an offset (in bytes, from the start of a
>         device) that should be skipped over before the partition entries.
>         This is used by the EFI/GPT partition implementation when a device
> @@ -21,17 +21,8 @@ u-boot,efi-partition-entries-offset
>  
>         This setting will override any values configured via Kconfig.
>  
> -u-boot,mmc-env-partition
> -       if present, the environment shall be placed at the last
> -       CONFIG_ENV_SIZE blocks of the partition on the
> -       CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV.
> -
> -       if u-boot,mmc-env-offset* is present, this setting will take
> -       precedence. In that case, only if the partition is not found,
> -       mmc-env-offset* will be tried.
> -
> -u-boot,mmc-env-offset
> -u-boot,mmc-env-offset-redundant
> +u-boot,mmc-env-offset (int)
> +u-boot,mmc-env-offset-redundant (int)
>         If present, the values of the 'u-boot,mmc-env-offset' and/or
>         of the u-boot,mmc-env-offset-redundant' properties overrides
>         CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND, respectively,
> @@ -42,12 +33,27 @@ u-boot,mmc-env-offset-redundant
>         will point at the beginning of a LBA and values that are not
>         LBA-aligned will be rounded up to the next LBA address.
>  
> -u-boot,spl-payload-offset
> +u-boot,mmc-env-partition (int)
> +       if present, the environment shall be placed at the last
> +       CONFIG_ENV_SIZE blocks of the partition on the
> +       CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV.
> +
> +       if u-boot,mmc-env-offset* is present, this setting will take
> +       precedence. In that case, only if the partition is not found,
> +       mmc-env-offset* will be tried.
> +
> +u-boot,no-keyboard (bool)
> +       Tells U-Boot not to expect an attached keyboard with a VGA console

Full stop missing.

> +
> +silent-console (int)
> +       If present and non-zero, the console is silenced by default on boot.
> +
> +u-boot,spl-payload-offset (int)
>         If present (and SPL is controlled by the device-tree), this allows
>         to override the CONFIG_SYS_SPI_U_BOOT_OFFS setting using a value
>         from the device-tree.
>  
> -sysreset-gpio
> +sysreset-gpio (string)
>         If present (and supported by the specific board), indicates a
>         GPIO that can be set to trigger a system reset.  It is assumed
>         that such a system reset will effect a complete platform reset,

Reviewed-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com>


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