[PATCH 1/2] arm/mx5: parse iomuxc pad configuratoin from device tree

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Aug 5 18:58:45 EDT 2011


On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 06:07:15PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Hi Grant, Shawn,
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> > This could get really verbose in a really big hurry.  Fortunately the
> > dtb format is sophisticated enough to only store each unique property
> > name once, so the data shouldn't be huge, but it is still going to
> > make for huge source files.  Can you think of a more concise
> > representation?
> 
> Yes: no representation at all. The correct place for IOMUX setup being
> done is *inside the boot firmware as soon as physically possible* and
> not seconds into boot after U-Boot has made a console, done a boot
> timeout, loaded scripts, kernels and ramdisks from media and then
> uncompressed and entered a Linux kernel.

We've had this argument before.  There are many use cases where the
firmware simply cannot be relied upon to do the right thing.

g.




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