[RFC] dm: core: Report bootph-pre-ram/sram node as pre-reloc after relocation

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jonas,

On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 07:32, Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se> wrote:
>
> Devices for nodes with e.g. bootph-pre-ram are initialized three times.
> 1. At SPL stage (always bind and probe only if used)
> 2. At U-Boot proper pre-reloc (always bind and probe)
> 3. At U-Boot proper normal (always bind and probe only if used)
>
> Change ofnode_pre_reloc to report a node with bootph-pre-ram/sram prop
> with a pre-reloc status only after U-Boot proper pre-relocation stage.
> This prevents the device from being probed at U-Boot proper pre-reloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
> ---
> I am not sure if U-Boot proper pre-reloc behaves like this by design and
> if there is some other way to signal that a device should not be probed
> during U-Boot proper pre-reloc stage if it has been probed at SPL stage.
>
> For my use-case I added bootph-pre-ram prop to my RK8xx device node to
> make the PMIC usable in SPL. However, I have no need for this device to
> probe at U-Boot proper pre-reloc stage just after jumping out of TF-A.
> And moments later bind and probe yet again at U-Boot proper normal stage.
>
> The bootph-pre-ram prop was used to have the device usable in SPL, else
> I could have used bootph-all or added bootph-some-ram prop to indicate
> use at U-Boot proper pre-reloc stage.

This is changing how things work...we really need to have something
explicit to use this new behaviour. Perhaps we can augment the binding
in some way?

>
>  drivers/core/ofnode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/core/ofnode.c b/drivers/core/ofnode.c
> index 8df16e56af5c..ebd5a408ae58 100644
> --- a/drivers/core/ofnode.c
> +++ b/drivers/core/ofnode.c
> @@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@ bool ofnode_pre_reloc(ofnode node)
>          */
>         if (ofnode_read_bool(node, "bootph-pre-ram") ||
>             ofnode_read_bool(node, "bootph-pre-sram"))
> -               return true;
> +               return !!(gd->flags & GD_FLG_RELOC);

I believe that the compiler knows how to convert 'gd->flags &
GD_FLG_RELOC' into a bool, so !! is not needed.

>
>         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_TAG_MIGRATE)) {
>                 /* detect and handle old tags */
> --
> 2.41.0
>

Regards,
Simon