[PATCH 00/10] Add support for extension boards detection and DT overlays application

[Kory Maincent]

This series of patches aims at proposing a generic U-Boot mechanism to
detect extension boards connected to the HW platform, and apply the
appropriate Device Tree overlays depending on the detected extension
boards.

Indeed, numerous popular platforms, such as the BeagleBone or the
RaspberryPi, feature some kind of extension board mechanism. These
extension boards are often discoverable through some kind of EEPROM
(connected on I2C, 1-wire, etc.) and require Device Tree overlays to be
applied at the U-Boot level to provide a complete HW description to the
Linux kernel. However, currently this logic is usually implemented
ad-hoc in downstream forks of U-Boot.

This series proposes to bring a HW-agnostic and generic solution to
this problem to upstream U-Boot. The series shows that it is generic
enough by implementing its usage for 2 different families of HW
platforms and expansion boards:

 - The BeagleBone Black and BeagleBone AI, that use extension boards
   where the EEPROM describing the extension boards is connected over
   I2C.

 - The CHIP, that uses extension boards where the EEPROM describing the
   extension boards is connected over 1-wire.

The patch series implements a new command called "extension", with two
sub-commands:

 - "extension scan" to detect available extension boards

 - "extension list" will simply list the detected extension boards

 - "extension apply" will allow to apply the Device Tree overlays
   corresponding to one extension board or to all expansion boards

Note that the name "extension" has been chosen to not refer to any
particular board-specific terminology for extension boards ("cape" for
BeagleBone, "DIP" for CHIP, "hat" for RaspberryPi, etc.). However, we
welcome suggestions of other names and are definitely willing to use a
different naming.

The "extension apply" command requires two environment variables to be
defined so that it knows how to apply DT overlays. This is described
in more details in PATCH 1.

This generic code requires board-specific code for the detection and
enumeration of extension boards. This is simply implemented in the form
of a board-specific extension_board_scan() function, which fills in a
list of detected extension boards.

In detail:

 - PATCH 1 move fdt_valid function to fdt_support file
 - PATCH 2 implements the generic command and logic
 - PATCH 3 implements the python test for the "extension" command
 - PATCH 4 implements the board-specific code for the BeagleBone platforms
 - PATCH 5 enables the mechanism for the BeagleBone AI
 - PATCH 6 to 8 enable the mechanism for the CHIP
 - PATCH 9 and 10 enable the mechanism for the BeagleBone Black

Thanks in advance for your review and feedback

Kory Maincent (10):
  fdt_support: move fdt_valid from cmd_fdt.c to fdt_support.c
  cmd: add support for a new "extension" command
  pytest: add sandbox test for "extension" command
  ti/common: add support for extension_scan_board function
  am57xx: add support for cape detect functionality
  arm: dts: sun5i: enable one-wire on the CHIP
  arm: mach-sunxi: add CHIP board target
  sun5i: add support for DIP detection to CHIP board
  arm: am335x: add support for i2c2 bus
  am335x: add support for cape detect functionality

 arch/Kconfig                              |   2 +
 arch/arm/dts/sun5i-r8-chip.dts            |   6 +
 arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx/Kconfig        |   1 +
 arch/arm/mach-omap2/am33xx/clock_am33xx.c |   1 +
 arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap5/Kconfig         |   1 +
 arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Kconfig               |  16 +++
 arch/sandbox/dts/Makefile                 |   1 +
 arch/sandbox/dts/overlay0.dts             |   9 ++
 arch/sandbox/dts/overlay1.dts             |   9 ++
 board/sandbox/sandbox.c                   |  23 +++
 board/sunxi/Makefile                      |   1 +
 board/sunxi/chip.c                        | 104 ++++++++++++++
 board/ti/am335x/board.c                   |   3 +
 board/ti/am335x/board.h                   |   1 +
 board/ti/am335x/mux.c                     |  15 ++
 board/ti/am57xx/board.c                   |   1 +
 board/ti/common/Kconfig                   |   3 +
 board/ti/common/Makefile                  |   1 +
 board/ti/common/cape_detect.c             |  96 +++++++++++++
 board/ti/common/cape_detect.h             |  28 ++++
 cmd/Kconfig                               |  12 ++
 cmd/Makefile                              |   1 +
 cmd/extension_board.c                     | 167 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 cmd/fdt.c                                 |  49 -------
 common/fdt_support.c                      |  46 ++++++
 configs/CHIP_defconfig                    |   1 +
 doc/README.extension                      |  80 +++++++++++
 include/configs/am335x_evm.h              |   2 +
 include/configs/am57xx_evm.h              |   2 +
 include/extension_board.h                 |  31 ++++
 include/fdt_support.h                     |   2 +
 test/py/tests/test_extension.py           |  52 +++++++
 32 files changed, 718 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/dts/overlay0.dts
 create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/dts/overlay1.dts
 create mode 100644 board/sunxi/chip.c
 create mode 100644 board/ti/common/cape_detect.c
 create mode 100644 board/ti/common/cape_detect.h
 create mode 100644 cmd/extension_board.c
 create mode 100644 doc/README.extension
 create mode 100644 include/extension_board.h
 create mode 100644 test/py/tests/test_extension.py

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