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diff --git a/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst b/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst
index afa27c211cc..4ef2fe699a4 100644
--- a/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst
+++ b/doc/driver-model/of-plat.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SoCs require a 16KB SPL image which must include a full MMC stack. In this
case the overhead of device tree access may be too great.
It is possible to create platform data manually by defining C structures
-for it, and reference that data in a U_BOOT_DEVICE() declaration. This
+for it, and reference that data in a U_BOOT_DRVINFO() declaration. This
bypasses the use of device tree completely, effectively creating a parallel
configuration mechanism. But it is an available option for SPL.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ SPL/TPL and should be tested with:
A new tool called 'dtoc' converts a device tree file either into a set of
struct declarations, one for each compatible node, and a set of
-U_BOOT_DEVICE() declarations along with the actual platform data for each
+U_BOOT_DRVINFO() declarations along with the actual platform data for each
device. As an example, consider this MMC node:
.. code-block:: none
@@ -155,16 +155,13 @@ and the following device declarations:
.card_detect_delay = 0xc8,
};
- U_BOOT_DEVICE(dwmmc_at_ff0c0000) = {
+ U_BOOT_DRVINFO(dwmmc_at_ff0c0000) = {
.name = "rockchip_rk3288_dw_mshc",
.plat = &dtv_dwmmc_at_ff0c0000,
.plat_size = sizeof(dtv_dwmmc_at_ff0c0000),
.parent_idx = -1,
};
- void dm_populate_phandle_data(void) {
- }
-
The device is then instantiated at run-time and the platform data can be
accessed using:
@@ -178,24 +175,21 @@ platform data in the driver. The of_to_plat() method should
therefore do nothing in such a driver.
Note that for the platform data to be matched with a driver, the 'name'
-property of the U_BOOT_DEVICE() declaration has to match a driver declared
+property of the U_BOOT_DRVINFO() declaration has to match a driver declared
via U_BOOT_DRIVER(). This effectively means that a U_BOOT_DRIVER() with a
'name' corresponding to the devicetree 'compatible' string (after converting
it to a valid name for C) is needed, so a dedicated driver is required for
each 'compatible' string.
-In order to make this a bit more flexible U_BOOT_DRIVER_ALIAS macro can be
+In order to make this a bit more flexible DM_DRIVER_ALIAS macro can be
used to declare an alias for a driver name, typically a 'compatible' string.
This macro produces no code, but it is by dtoc tool.
The parent_idx is the index of the parent driver_info structure within its
-linker list (instantiated by the U_BOOT_DEVICE() macro). This is used to support
-dev_get_parent(). The dm_populate_phandle_data() is included to allow for
-fix-ups required by dtoc. It is not currently used. The values in 'clocks' are
-the index of the driver_info for the target device followed by any phandle
-arguments. This is used to support device_get_by_driver_info_idx().
+linker list (instantiated by the U_BOOT_DRVINFO() macro). This is used to support
+dev_get_parent().
-During the build process dtoc parses both U_BOOT_DRIVER and U_BOOT_DRIVER_ALIAS
+During the build process dtoc parses both U_BOOT_DRIVER and DM_DRIVER_ALIAS
to build a list of valid driver names and driver aliases. If the 'compatible'
string used for a device does not not match a valid driver name, it will be
checked against the list of driver aliases in order to get the right driver
@@ -297,7 +291,7 @@ For example:
.plat_auto = sizeof(struct mmc_plat),
};
- U_BOOT_DRIVER_ALIAS(mmc_drv, vendor_mmc) /* matches compatible string */
+ DM_DRIVER_ALIAS(mmc_drv, vendor_mmc) /* matches compatible string */
Note that struct mmc_plat is defined in the C file, not in a header. This
is to avoid needing to include dt-structs.h in a header file. The idea is to
@@ -337,9 +331,11 @@ prevents them being used inadvertently. All usage must be bracketed with
#if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(OF_PLATDATA).
The dt-plat.c file contains the device declarations and is is built in
-spl/dt-plat.c. It additionally contains the definition of
-dm_populate_phandle_data() which is responsible of filling the phandle
-information by adding references to U_BOOT_DEVICE by using DM_GET_DEVICE
+spl/dt-plat.c.
+
+The dm_populate_phandle_data() function that was previous needed has now been
+removed, since dtoc can address the drivers directly from dt-plat.c and does
+not need to fix up things at runtime.
The pylibfdt Python module is used to access the devicetree.