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Author: Ivaylo Dimitrov
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To: Tom Rini
CC: Pali Rohár, maemo-leste, u-boot, Merlijn Wajer
Subject: Re: [maemo-leste] [PATCH] arm: Remove nokia_rx51 board
Hi,

On 16.06.21 г. 15:10 ч., Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:02:16AM +0300, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 15.06.21 г. 15:34 ч., Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 08:40:30AM +0300, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 22.05.21 г. 0:36 ч., Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>> On Friday 21 May 2021 10:44:18 Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:52:03AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:27:48PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday 18 May 2021 21:26:40 Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>>>>>> This board has not been converted to CONFIG_DM_USB by the deadline.
>>>>>>>>> Remove it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm very disappointed that you want to remove Nokia N900 from U-Boot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was waiting waiting half of year because other developers did not
>>>>>>>> react to issues which were introduced and neither to patches which I
>>>>>>>> sent (+ trying to remind open issues). And also I was waiting another
>>>>>>>> half of year until other N900 related patches were merged. So the whole
>>>>>>>> slowdown was not caused by me, why it is taking so long.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now there is still one N900 DM related patch waiting for review. I'm
>>>>>>>> converting code step by step.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So the ball is not on my side.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, what patch(es) need to be applied to get DM_USB enabled? Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't see any open patches from you that look related to enabling
>>>>>> DM_USB on the platform. If you want to disable USB on the platform for
>>>>>> now instead, that's fine too.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I tried to migrate the latest master to DM_USB, but unfortunately the
>>>> results are pretty much sad - adding OF_CONTROL (which is a prerequisite to
>>>> have DM_USB IIUC) and OF_BOARD (so binary to be compiled), adds ~100k to the
>>>> size of the u-boot binary, so it becomes 370284 bytes. Given that we have
>>>> less than 256k of storage space for the u-boot, the produced binary cannot
>>>> be used on n900 the same way current (no DM_USB) binary is used.
>>>>
>>>> As I see it, there are not much options left - u-boot on N900 is not SPL, so
>>>> we can't use OF_PLATDATA, which in turn always links libfdt.
>>>> Also, if I read the code (usb-uclass.c) correctly, enabling DM_USB requires
>>>> the board to be converted to DT and this is way bigger change.
>>>>
>>>> Please advice on how to proceed.
>>>
>>> Please post your WIP patches, thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I am not sure I understand what patches you want me to post:
>>
>> WDT patch has already been sent couple of months ago -
>> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-March/443868.html
>> Do you want it to be rebased and resend?
>>
>> DM_USB, I just started writing one and I immediately hit the OF_CONTROL
>> requirement. Enabling OF_CONTROL requires a full blown migration to DT,
>> which is a huge task and not really equal to "Please update the board to use
>> CONFIG_DM_USB...". Without OF_CONTROL, I simply get link failures:
>>
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> DWARF error: could not find abbrev number 3998
>> /tmp/cc0BOqms.ltrans0.ltrans.o: in function `usb_child_post_bind':
>> <artificial>:(.text+0x5672): undefined reference to
>> `ofnode_read_u32_default'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> <artificial>:(.text+0x568c): undefined reference to
>> `ofnode_read_u32_default'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> /tmp/cc0BOqms.ltrans0.ltrans.o: in function `usb_scan_device':
>> <artificial>:(.text+0x6c84): undefined reference to `ofnode_first_subnode'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> <artificial>:(.text+0x6c96): undefined reference to `ofnode_read_u32'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> <artificial>:(.text+0x6ca4): undefined reference to `ofnode_next_subnode'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> /tmp/cc0BOqms.ltrans0.ltrans.o:(.u_boot_list_2_uclass_driver_2_usb+0x8):
>> undefined reference to `dm_scan_fdt_dev'
>> /usr/lib/gcc-cross/arm-linux-gnueabi/8/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld:
>> /tmp/cc0BOqms.ltrans0.ltrans.o:(.u_boot_list_2_uclass_driver_2_usb_hub+0x8):
>> undefined reference to `dm_scan_fdt_dev'
>>
>> Fixing those requires enabling of OF_CONTROL and this in turn means the
>> board must be migrated to DT, unless I am missing something. That's why my
>> "please advice..." stance.
>
> Please post the patches that bring you to the above link errors, yes,
> thanks.
>


diff --git a/configs/nokia_rx51_defconfig b/configs/nokia_rx51_defconfig
index 3548aab0e1..36ec05a8b3 100644
--- a/configs/nokia_rx51_defconfig
+++ b/configs/nokia_rx51_defconfig
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ CONFIG_CONS_INDEX=3
CONFIG_SYS_NS16550=y
CONFIG_SPI=y
CONFIG_USB=y
+CONFIG_DM_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_MUSB_UDC=y
CONFIG_USB_OMAP3=y
CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE=y