> Am 05.10.2016 um 18:48 schrieb Fabian Vogt <fv...@suse.com>: > > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2016, 09:54:46 CEST schrieb Stephen Warren: >> On 09/26/2016 06:26 AM, Fabian Vogt wrote: >>> This patch series modifies the used drivers to work with OF_CONTROL >>> and switches the board code and configs to use it. >>> The added device trees are directly from the linux kernel tree >>> and can thus be used for booting the (upstream) kernel. >> >> Is there a user-visible or developer-visible benefit to this change? In >> general, converting to use DT to instantiate devices simply ends up >> using more code (and hence complexity and time) to get to the exact same >> state afterwards. > > There are various reasons, like: > > - The device tree describes the platform, so it can also be used by the > linux kernel for configuration (no separate dtb needed)
With a bit of lobbying, we might even be able to get a working dt from the rpi firmware. That again would enable awesome things like hat support in u-boot :). Alex _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot