[PATCH] board: ti: am62x: Add variable device tree in env

Jason Kacines j-kacines at ti.com
Mon Jul 31 21:14:19 CEST 2023


On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 09:36:38AM -0500, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 7/31/23 9:27 AM, Jason Kacines wrote:
> > Added variable default_device_tree that grabs from defconfig. Prevents
> > needing to change this variable in two locations if using a separate
> > device tree. In the future, it would be a good idea to remove this logic
> > completely, but this will help reduce complications.
> > 
> 
> If there are more than one possible DT for a given configuration, then
> we should have logic in `findfdt` to handle that. Not sure what having
> this set from kconfig will help in practice.
> 
> Plus this kconfig is the DT bundled with SPL/U-Boot, but here you are using
> it to set the name of the DT to load for kernel (in theory these should have
> the same name but it still feels like a misuse).

This is a good point, not directly related to kconfig. Thank you. Ignore
this patch.

Jason

> 
> How about we just skip to removing this logic as you suggest, set name_fdt
> directly and remove the `default_device_tree` env var.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Kacines <j-kacines at ti.com>
> > ---
> >   board/ti/am62x/am62x.env | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/board/ti/am62x/am62x.env b/board/ti/am62x/am62x.env
> > index bb37d21de6..ee3d5a6b5f 100644
> > --- a/board/ti/am62x/am62x.env
> > +++ b/board/ti/am62x/am62x.env
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >   #include <environment/ti/ti_armv7_common.env>
> >   #include <environment/ti/mmc.env>
> > -default_device_tree=ti/k3-am625-sk.dtb
> > +default_device_tree=CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE.dtb
> >   findfdt=
> >   	setenv name_fdt ${default_device_tree};
> >   	setenv fdtfile ${name_fdt}


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