[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH] ARM: sun6i: dt: Add new Mele I7 device

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 11-03-15 14:41, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:33:51PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> and we have no way to replace U-Boot in NAND
>>>>> so far (afaik). But replacing them by stdout-path is a very good
>>>>> solution too.
>>>>
>>>> You mean putting stdout-path in the dts, I'm not sure if I like that,
>>>> to me both bootargs and stdout-path are something which should be
>>>> left to the bootloader to set. But I understand that when not
>>>> using upstream u-boot that may be an issue.
>>>
>>> I know that some other platforms ask for stdout-path when they review
>>> it, because iirc, barebox uses it to know on which console to output
>>> its log and export its shell, which is also a valid interpretation of
>>> that property, and, contrary to bootargs, doesn't really imply that
>>> the bootloader should update it.
>>
>> Hmm, that is interesting we should probably start doing the same in
>> all the sunxi dts files, as eventually I would like to move all u-boot
>> board config to devicetree, so that we only need to maintain dts files
>> and not both dts files and u-boot board configs.
>
> I had the plan to remove all earlyprintk in the bootargs of the DTS, I
> can do it to convert all DTS to use stdout-path as well.

Sounds good, please do.

Regards,

Hans