Dear Stephen Warren, In message <50cf9baa.3050...@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote: > > There are many ways besides device tree to enumerate hardware. For > example, consider PCI or USB (albeit USB isn't memory mapped). I don't
Yes, there are. But your console port cannot be compred against dynamically populated and scannable bus interfaces like USB or PCI, and I think you are aware of that. > think we should tie any new U-Boot dynamic device registration API to > device tree, since that would seem to prevent (or imply against) usage > of that API with PCI for example. Not any dynamic device registration. But here, it actually AIN'T dynamic - it is fully static, just board dependent. > Perhaps this is just bike-shedding over naming? No. > So that all of the following cases could call that: > > * DT parsing. > * PCI device enumeration. > * ODMDATA parsing. NAK. This is totally wrong. ODMDATA is just a different representation of information that could as well be encoded in a DT. PCI or USB bus scanning gives information which cannot be encoded in a DT passed to U-Boot (at least not unless you dynamically generate that DT using some other softeware performing such a bus scan). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de If you hear an onion ring, answer it. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
