Re: [PATCH] of: unittest: Statically apply overlays using fdtoverlay

[Viresh Kumar]

On 20-01-21, 10:36, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 19-01-21, 09:44, Frank Rowand wrote:
> > No.  overlay_base.dts is intentionally compiled into a base FDT, not
> > an overlay.  Unittest intentionally unflattens this FDT in early boot,
> > in association with unflattening the system FDT.  One key intent
> > behind this is to use the same memory allocation method that is
> > used for the system FDT.
> > 
> > Do not try to convert overlay_base.dts into an overlay.
> 
> Okay, but why does it have /plugin/; specified in it then ?
> 
> And shouldn't we create two separate dtb-s now, static_test.dtb and
> static_overlay_test.dtb ? As fdtoverlay will not be able to merge it with
> testcase.dtb anyway.
> 
> Or maybe we can create another file static_overlay.dts (like testcases.dts)
> which can include both testcases.dts and overlay_base.dts, and then we can
> create static_test.dtb out of it ? That won't impact the runtime tests at all.

Hmm, I noticed just now that you have kept overlay.dtb out of the build,
probably we should then drop overlay_base.dtb as well ?

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viresh