Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM: zynq: dt: Convert to preprocessor includes

[Steffen Trumtrar]

Hi!

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:10:12AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:24:07PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> 
> > Device-tree BSP and in 2014.01 there will be new BSP which just
> > generate them directly from the Vivado tools which just target your
> > reference design.  You can connect your custom IP (or Xilinx or 3rd
> > party) directly to the GIC which using different IRQ sensitivity
> > with whatever register addresses and make no sense to write it by
> > hand.
> 
> On our Zynq design here we ended up being unwilling to use platform
> generation from Vivado. Basically all our IP was custom, so there was
> no win at all to invoking the complexity of the automatic tools.
> 
> Thus we write the DT by hand, and our DT is complex, integrating
> peripherals that span two FPGAs.
> 
> I think the in-kernel DT should use the kernel conventions, which
> means using #include and the binding constants over magic values.
> 

ACK.

If in doubt follow common mainline practice. Although using includes
for DT is not necessarily common practice, readability of DTs is
really important IMHO.

Regards,
Steffen

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