On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, Daniel. wrote:

Or maybe using [status = "disabled"] at the device tree. Do you
control the compilation of these device-trees, kernel, drivers and
apps?

  this sounds like the simplest approach -- u-boot can check things
out and, if necessary, use the FDT utilities to disable the portion of
the tree related to that driver. am i understanding this correctly?

rday

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