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authorTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2019-07-11 18:10:11 -0400
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2019-07-11 18:10:11 -0400
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Merge tag 'dm-pull-9jul19-take2' of https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm
- Sandbox improvements including .dts refactor - Minor tracing and PCI improvements - Various other minor fixes - Conversion of patman, dtoc and binman to support Python 3
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@@ -849,6 +849,10 @@ in the device tree node. For U-Boot proper you can use 'u-boot,dm-pre-proper'
which means that it will be processed (and a driver bound) in U-Boot proper
prior to relocation, but will not be available in SPL or TPL.
+To reduce the size of SPL and TPL, only the nodes with pre-relocation properties
+('u-boot,dm-pre-reloc', 'u-boot,dm-spl' or 'u-boot,dm-tpl') are keept in their
+device trees (see README.SPL for details); the remaining nodes are always bound.
+
Then post relocation we throw that away and re-init driver model again.
For drivers which require some sort of continuity between pre- and
post-relocation devices, we can provide access to the pre-relocation