On 11/26/19 5:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:11:51AM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote: >> On 11/26/19 12:16 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: >>> Dear maintainers, >> >> Hi, >> >>> we have been trying to move to the driver model for several years now. >>> Starting in 2018 we have added warnings to the Makefile that boards not >>> supporting the driver model will be eliminated. Still 24 % of the >>> configuration files have not been converted and do not even use >>> CONFIG_DM=y. >>> >>> If we want to get rid of legacy drivers, at some point we have to remove >>> the 347 configuration files in the list below not using the driver model. >>> >>> I suggest to do this directly after the release of v2020.01 scheduled >>> January 6th. >>> >>> This should not stop the maintainers from reinserting the boards after >>> conversion to the driver model. >> >> Some boards just cannot accommodate this DM stuff. For those boards, >> it's just bloat without any useful added value. Hence, these boards >> would be removed because they cannot accommodate arbitrary bloat. This >> makes U-Boot not-so-universal bootloader anymore, but rather a bloated one. >> >> I don't think we can force boards out or impose DM on everyone unless we >> can solve this bloat issue first. > > As someone who was involved in creating this DM stuff, do you have some > ideas on addressing things? Given that you're responsible for a number > of these platforms and can test out some ideas on them, what are you > suggesting?
How about directly calling driver functions for drivers which have single instance only ? Then we could optimize out all the DM overhead for that. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
