On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 10:13:42AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > The original patch of this series was sent in September 2019 but > unfortunately caused build problems on some boards, since they don't > comply with the of-platdata rules. > > With of-platdata, the idea is to compile the device tree into C structures > to save space and avoid needing to use libfdt. But some boards use > of-platdata while also using libfdt in a few areas, thus defeating the > purpose of of-platdata. > > This series includes the original two patches > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1167420/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1167367/ > > as well as a few other patches to fix the build errors. Overall this > reduces code size and provides better error messages when unavailable > functions are used. > > Board maintainers should still take a look at the result, adjusting the > of-platdata support as needed. > > Note: This series was resent a year ago but not applied. Since then, some > boards have ended up using drivers in SPL which require OF_CONTROL, but > SPL_OF_CONTROL is not enabled. So now we have two problems. This series > fixes that one also. > > The problems will keep getting worse if people are not aware that > something is wrong. Therefore I think this patch series should be applied > ASAP.
OK, so I took 5/6 and 6/6 and fired off a build. The only fails-to-link now are: am335x_boneblack_vboot am335x_evm am335x_evm_spiboot So are all of the other problems still present? I'm going to look in to the am335x failures. -- Tom
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