Allow boards to initialize the DT at runtime.
In some boards like the Raspberry Pi the initial bootloader will pass
a DT to the kernel. When using U-Boot as such kernel, the board code in
U-Boot should be able to provide U-Boot with this, already assembled
device tree blob.
This patch introduces a new config option CONFIG_OF_BOARD to use instead
of CONFIG_OF_EMBED or CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE which will initialize the DT
from a board-specific funtion instead of bundling one with U-Boot or as
a separated file. This allows boards like the Raspberry Pi to reuse the
device tree passed from the bootcode.bin and start.elf firmware
files, including the run-time selected device tree overlays.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deymo <deymo@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/doc/README.fdt-control b/doc/README.fdt-control
index c965629..378b06b 100644
--- a/doc/README.fdt-control
+++ b/doc/README.fdt-control
@@ -130,6 +130,10 @@
CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK, then u-boot.img will be built to include the device
tree binary.
+If CONFIG_OF_BOARD is defined, a board-specific routine will provide the
+device tree at runtime, for example if an earlier bootloader stage creates
+it and passes it to U-Boot.
+
If CONFIG_OF_HOSTFILE is defined, then it will be read from a file on
startup. This is only useful for sandbox. Use the -d flag to U-Boot to
specify the file to read.