[PATCH v5 00/26] fdt: Make OF_BOARD a boolean option

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 08:08:19AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> Hi François,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 00:07, François Ozog <francois.ozog at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon
> >
> > Position unchanged on this series: adding fake dts for boards that generate their device tree in the dts directory is not good. If you have them in documentation the it is acceptable.
> 
> I think we are going to have to disagree on this one.

I'm not convinced either that we want or should have checked in device
trees for all of the platforms where the source of truth is elsewhere.

> I actually used
> the qemu one in testing/development recently. We have to have a way to
> develop in-tree with U-Boot. It does not impinge on any of your use
> cases, so far as I know.

It's certainly true that the "edit, rebuild, re-pass the dtb" cycle has
been sub-optimal since inception.  It's not even U-Boot related.  I can
count a number of times recently working with customers and just for
Linux, having to spend a number of hours on the edit, rebuild, really
make sure it gets populated where it's supposed to go, verify that yes
really our modified dtb is the one present cycle.  It's a very generic
problem.

-- 
Tom
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