When a driver declares DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag, it wishes to be
bound before relocation. However due to a bug in the DM core,
the flag only takes effect when devices are statically declared
via U_BOOT_DEVICE(). This bug has been fixed recently by commit
"dm: core: Respect drivers with the DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag in
lists_bind_fdt()", but with the fix, it has a side effect that
all existing drivers that declared DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag will
be bound before relocation now. This may expose potential boot
failure on some boards due to insufficient memory during the
pre-relocation stage.

To mitigate this potential impact, the following changes are
implemented:

- Remove DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag in the driver, if the driver
  only supports configuration from device tree (OF_CONTROL)
- Keep DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag in the driver only if the device
  is statically declared via U_BOOT_DEVICE()
- Surround DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC flag with OF_CONTROL check, for
  drivers that support both statically declared devices and
  configuration from device tree

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng...@gmail.com>
---

 drivers/video/simplefb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
index 3b8da80..1679d20 100644
--- a/drivers/video/simplefb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
@@ -68,5 +68,4 @@ U_BOOT_DRIVER(simple_video) = {
        .id     = UCLASS_VIDEO,
        .of_match = simple_video_ids,
        .probe  = simple_video_probe,
-       .flags  = DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC,
 };
-- 
2.7.4

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