[PATCH 1/1 RFC] treewide: Deprecate OF_PRIOR_STAGE

[Simon Glass]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 10:26, Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at fitzsim.org> wrote:
>
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >> > I think one option is better than two. I have a slight preference for
> >> > OF_PRIOR_STAGE because it is board-agnostic, but I'm not sure it
> >> > matters, since some of these boards are doing strange things anyway
> >> > and cannot use OF_PRIOR_STAGE. So let's go with this.
> >>
> >> For now it's easier getting rid of OF_PRIOR_STAGE than OF_BOARD.
> >> Once we unify OF_PRIOR_STAGE/OF_BOARD and OF_HOSTFILE, then
> >> I can send a patch on top of that, which removes the board_fdt_blob_setup()
> >> and just stores the address in a similar fashion to the removed
> >> 'prior_stage_fdt_address'.  That way we can get rid of architecture
> >> specific constructs wrt to DT in gd.  The callback is a bit more of a pain to
> >> maintain for multiple boards but is more flexible than an address in a
> >> register.  In any case we can do something along the lines of:
> >>
> >> Check register (or blob list or whatever)
> >> if (valid dtb)
> >>     fixup/amend/use (depending on what we decide)
> >> else
> >>    arch specific callback
> >>
> >> That should give us enough flexibility to deal with future boards (famous
> >> last words).
> >
> > SGTM
>
> This sounds like a good generalization that would still work for the
> bcm7445 and bcm7260 boards.  I'll test this approach on the evaluation
> boards I have.
>
> For the BCM7445 I may be able to import the evaluation board device tree
> that Broadcom publishes as part of stblinux.  At runtime I may need to
> merge some of the in-memory items generated by BOLT, but I'll try to
> make this work.

That would be good.

>
> The BCM7260 DTS is not publicly available though, as far as I know.

Presumably it can be dumped from U-Boot?

Regards,
Simon