Hi, On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:21:33PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > flash-kernel has a database /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db with > entries like: > > Machine: LeMaker Banana Pi > Kernel-Flavors: armmp armmp-lpae > Boot-Script-Path: /boot/boot.scr > DTB-Id: sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb > U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.sunxi > Required-Packages: u-boot-tools > > Machine refers to the value of /proc/device-tree/model. > DTB-Id is the dtb to be installed. > > So what flash-kernel does is: > - look up value of /proc/device-tree/model > - retrieve correlated dtb file name from database > - install dtb with this name > - create symbolic links for the dtb > > If multiple boards use the the same dtb that is fine with flash-kernel > as long as the value of model is unique per dtb. OCTEON does not work like this. The file you are modifying (octeon_3xxx.dts) is compiled into the kernel, and there is no external DTB file. So the model string will be always the same regardless on which board you have booted the kernel. A. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
