[PATCH v6 0/5] of-platdata: Avoid building libfdt

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:13:42AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> The original patch of this series was sent in September 2019 but
> unfortunately caused build problems on some boards, since they don't
> comply with the of-platdata rules.
> 
> With of-platdata, the idea is to compile the device tree into C structures
> to save space and avoid needing to use libfdt. But some boards use
> of-platdata while also using libfdt in a few areas, thus defeating the
> purpose of of-platdata.
> 
> This series includes the original two patches
> 
>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1167420/
>    http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1167367/
> 
> as well as a few other patches to fix the build errors. Overall this
> reduces code size and provides better error messages when unavailable
> functions are used.
> 
> Board maintainers should still take a look at the result, adjusting the
> of-platdata support as needed.
> 
> Note: This series was resent a year ago but not applied. Since then, some
> boards have ended up using drivers in SPL which require OF_CONTROL, but
> SPL_OF_CONTROL is not enabled. So now we have two problems. This series
> fixes that one also.
> 
> The problems will keep getting worse if people are not aware that
> something is wrong. Therefore I think this patch series should be applied
> ASAP.

OK, so I took 5/6 and 6/6 and fired off a build.  The only fails-to-link
now are:
am335x_boneblack_vboot am335x_evm am335x_evm_spiboot

So are all of the other problems still present?  I'm going to look in to
the am335x failures.

-- 
Tom
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