Merge tag 'dm-9oct18' of git://git.denx.de/u-boot-dm

Test improvements to tidy up output and drop duplicate tests
Sandbox SPL/TPL support
Various dm-related improvements

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/README.fdt-control b/doc/README.fdt-control
index 634a106..d6ab7bf 100644
--- a/doc/README.fdt-control
+++ b/doc/README.fdt-control
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ In case you are wondering, OF stands for Open Firmware.
 Tools
 -----
 
-To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler here:
+To use this feature you will need to get the device tree compiler. This is
+provided by U-Boot automatically. If you have a system version of dtc
+(typically in the 'device-tree-compiler' package), it is currently not used.
+
+If you want to build your own dtc, it is kept here:
 
 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
 
@@ -170,6 +174,16 @@ After board configuration is done, fdt supported u-boot can be build in two ways
     $ make DEVICE_TREE=<dts-file-name>
 
 
+Relocation, SPL and TPL
+-----------------------
+
+U-Boot can be divided into three phases: TPL, SPL and U-Boot proper.
+
+The full device tree is available to U-Boot proper, but normally only a subset
+(or none at all) is available to TPL and SPL. See 'Pre-Relocation Support' and
+'SPL Support' in doc/driver-model/README.txt for more details.
+
+
 Limitations
 -----------
 
diff --git a/doc/driver-model/README.txt b/doc/driver-model/README.txt
index e949ff6..3654163 100644
--- a/doc/driver-model/README.txt
+++ b/doc/driver-model/README.txt
@@ -832,11 +832,14 @@ Pre-Relocation Support
 For pre-relocation we simply call the driver model init function. Only
 drivers marked with DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC or the device tree
 'u-boot,dm-pre-reloc' flag are initialised prior to relocation. This helps
-to reduce the driver model overhead.
+to reduce the driver model overhead. This flag applies to SPL and TPL as
+well, if device tree is enabled there.
 
 It is possible to limit this to specific relocation steps, by using
 the more specialized 'u-boot,dm-spl' and 'u-boot,dm-tpl' flags
-in the devicetree.
+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.
 
 Then post relocation we throw that away and re-init driver model again.
 For drivers which require some sort of continuity between pre- and