With Ilias' efforts we have dropped OF_PRIOR_STAGE and OF_HOSTFILE so
there are only three ways to obtain a devicetree:
- OF_SEPARATE - the normal way, where the devicetree is built and
appended to U-Boot
- OF_EMBED - for development purposes, the devicetree is embedded in
the ELF file (also used for EFI)
- OF_BOARD - the board figures it out on its own
The last one is currently set up so that no devicetree is needed at all
in the U-Boot tree. Most boards do provide one, but some don't. Some
don't even provide instructions on how to boot on the board.
The problems with this approach are documented in another patch in this
series: "doc: Add documentation about devicetree usage"
In practice, OF_BOARD is not really distinct from OF_SEPARATE. Any board
can obtain its devicetree at runtime, even it is has a devicetree built
in U-Boot. This is because U-Boot may be a second-stage bootloader and its
caller may have a better idea about the hardware available in the machine.
This is the case with a few QEMU boards, for example.
So it makes no sense to have OF_BOARD as a 'choice'. It should be an
option, available with either OF_SEPARATE or OF_EMBED.
This series makes this change, adding various missing devicetree files
(and placeholders) to make the build work.
Note: If board maintainers are able to add their own patch to add the
files, some patches in this series can be dropped.
It also provides a few qemu clean-ups discovered along the way. The
qemu-riscv64_spl problem is fixed.
[1]
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20210919215111.3830278-3-...@chromium.org/
Changes in v6:
- Fix description of OF_BOARD so it refers just to the current state
- Explain that the 'two devicetrees' refers to two *control* devicetrees
- Expand the commit message based on comments
- Expand the commit message based on comments
Changes in v5:
- Bring into the OF_BOARD series
- Rebase to master and drop mention of OF_PRIOR_STAGE, since removed
- Refer to the 'control' DTB in the first paragraph
- Use QEMU instead of qemu
- Merge RISC-V and ARM patches since they are similar
- Add new patches to clean up fdtdec_setup() and surrounds
Changes in v3:
- Clarify the 'bug' refered to at the top
- Reword 'This means that there' paragraph to explain U-Boot-specific things
- Move to doc/develop/devicetree now that OF_CONTROL is in the docs
Changes in v2:
- Fix typos per Sean (thank you!) and a few others
- Add a 'Use of U-Boot /config node' section
- Drop mention of dm-verity since that actually uses the kernel cmdline
- Explain that OF_BOARD will still work after these changes (in
'Once this bug is fixed...' paragraph)
- Expand a bit on the reason why the 'Current situation' is bad
- Clarify in a second place that Linux and U-Boot use the same devicetree
in 'To be clear, while U-Boot...'
- Expand on why we should have rules for other projects in
'Devicetree in another project'
- Add a comment as to why devicetree in U-Boot is not 'bad design'
- Reword 'in-tree U-Boot devicetree' to 'devicetree source in U-Boot'
- Rewrite 'Devicetree generated on-the-fly in another project' to cover
points raised on v1
- Add 'Why does U-Boot have its nodes and properties?'
- Add 'Why not have two devicetrees?'
Simon Glass (25):
doc: Add documentation about devicetree usage
arm: qemu: Mention -nographic in the docs
arm: riscv: qemu: Explain how to extract the generated dt
arm: qemu: Add a devicetree file for qemu_arm
arm: qemu: Add a devicetree file for qemu_arm64
riscv: qemu: Add devicetree files for qemu_riscv32/64
arm: rpi: Add a devicetree file for rpi_4
arm: vexpress: Add a devicetree file for juno
arm: xenguest_arm64: Add a fake devicetree file
arm: octeontx: Add a fake devicetree file
arm: xilinx_versal_virt: Add a devicetree file
arm: bcm7xxx: Add a devicetree file
arm: qemu-ppce500: Add a devicetree file
arm: highbank: Add a fake devicetree file
fdt: Make OF_BOARD a bool option
Drop CONFIG_BINMAN_STANDALONE_FDT
doc: Update info on devicetree update
fdt: Move MULTI_DTB_FIT handling out of fdtdec_setup()
fdt: Drop #ifdefs with MULTI_DTB_FIT
fdt: Drop CONFIG_SPL_BUILD check in fdtdec_setup()
fdt: Drop #ifdef around board_fdt_blob_setup()
fdt: Use if() for fdtcontroladdr check
fdt: Drop OF_CONTROL check in fdtdec_setup()
fdt: Drop remaining preprocessor macros in fdtdec_setup()
fdt: Don't call board_fdt_blob_setup() without OF_BOARD
Makefile | 3 +-
arch/arm/dts/Makefile | 20 +-
arch/arm/dts/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts | 1958 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm/dts/bcm7xxx.dts | 15 +
arch/arm/dts/highbank.dts | 14 +
arch/arm/dts/juno-r2.dts | 1038 +++++++++++++
arch/arm/dts/octeontx.dts | 14 +
arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm.dts | 402 +++++
arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm64.dts | 381 +++++
arch/arm/dts/xenguest-arm64.dts | 15 +
arch/arm/dts/xilinx-versal-virt.dts | 307 ++++
arch/powerpc/dts/Makefile | 1 +
arch/powerpc/dts/qemu-ppce500.dts | 264 ++++
arch/riscv/dts/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt.dts | 8 -
arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt32.dts | 217 +++
arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt64.dts | 217 +++
configs/bcm7260_defconfig | 1 +
configs/bcm7445_defconfig | 1 +
configs/highbank_defconfig | 2 +-
configs/octeontx2_95xx_defconfig | 1 +
configs/octeontx2_96xx_defconfig | 1 +
configs/octeontx_81xx_defconfig | 1 +
configs/octeontx_83xx_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu-ppce500_defconfig | 2 +
configs/qemu-riscv32_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu-riscv32_smode_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu-riscv32_spl_defconfig | 4 +-
configs/qemu-riscv64_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu-riscv64_smode_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu-riscv64_spl_defconfig | 3 +-
configs/qemu_arm64_defconfig | 1 +
configs/qemu_arm_defconfig | 1 +
configs/rpi_4_32b_defconfig | 1 +
configs/rpi_4_defconfig | 1 +
configs/rpi_arm64_defconfig | 1 +
configs/vexpress_aemv8a_juno_defconfig | 1 +
configs/xenguest_arm64_defconfig | 2 +-
configs/xilinx_versal_virt_defconfig | 1 +
doc/board/emulation/qemu-arm.rst | 10 +-
doc/board/emulation/qemu-riscv.rst | 3 +
doc/develop/devicetree/dt_qemu.rst | 48 +
doc/develop/devicetree/dt_update.rst | 497 ++++++
doc/develop/devicetree/index.rst | 2 +
dts/Kconfig | 30 +-
include/asm-generic/global_data.h | 8 +
include/fdtdec.h | 21 +-
lib/fdtdec.c | 117 +-
tools/binman/binman.rst | 20 -
49 files changed, 5538 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/bcm7xxx.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/highbank.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/juno-r2.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/octeontx.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/qemu-arm64.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/xenguest-arm64.dts
create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/xilinx-versal-virt.dts
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/dts/qemu-ppce500.dts
delete mode 100644 arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt.dts
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt32.dts
create mode 100644 arch/riscv/dts/qemu-virt64.dts
create mode 100644 doc/develop/devicetree/dt_qemu.rst
create mode 100644 doc/develop/devicetree/dt_update.rst
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