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arm: rpi: Enable USB and Ethernet driver model Raspberry Pi

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Cover letter [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/20] arm: rpi: Enable USB and Ethernet driver model Raspberry Pi
Quoted 21 lines · Stephen Warren
Quoted 11 lines · Simon Glass

Hi Stephen,

Quoted 8 lines · Stephen Warren
Quoted 6 lines · Simon Glass

Raspberry Pi uses a DWC2 USB controller and a SMSC USB Ethernet adaptor. Neither of these currently support driver model.

This series does the following:
- Move Raspberry Pi to use device tree control (u-boot-dtb.bin instead of

     u-boot.bin)
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I'd strongly prefer not to do this. For one thing, it means we'd need different U-Boot builds for each of the different RPi models, and we currently don't need that (or perhaps we require users to create their own u-boot-dtb.bin by choosing the right DTB to append). If it

Why does device tree change how things work now? The get_board_rev() function currently deals with this. It doesn't look like rpi_board_rev is used anywhere else.

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Without a DT, the code is free to make all the board-rev-specific decisions at run-time without external influence.

With a DT, we either have to:

a) Pick the DT for one particular board and use that everywhere, even if it's incorrect for the actual board in use.

Is that an option? I mean... if you can tolerate incorrect values for something, perhaps that something should not be in the dtb in the first place?

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b) Build a different U-Boot + DTB image for each board-rev, and put the correct one on the SD card.

d) Build U-Boot + set of DTB images, then pick up the right one at the runtime?

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Neither of those options seem like a good idea to me.

Stuff that can be autodetected does not belong to the device tree...

Pavel

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