On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:37:48 -0700, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/14/2013 12:16 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:00:24PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: > > > >> I don't think a distro should need to know the DTB filename at all. > >> Rather, the/a bootloader should know which platform it's running on, and > >> provide a variable/... to the boot script/... that defines the DTB > >> filename. That would completely remove all the knowledge of DTB > >> filenames from distros. > > > > At some point the distro has to install a dtb into some cannonical > > place so the bootloader can find it.. > > > > Are you thinking that distros will have to ship a /boot/dtbs/*.dtb > > with every dtb from the kernel build? > > Yes. How else would the distro support booting the install on arbitrary > boards? > > > What happens when you install two different versions of the kernel? > > /boot/zImage-$version > /boot/dtbs-$version/*.dtb > > > What about boot schemes that can load a kernel version dependent dtb? > > I think that's solved by installing the DTB files in a > kernel-version-specific directory. That's certainly the way I would solve it. g. -- 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
