Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: bindings: Add DT bindings for ARM's FVP models.

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On Tue, 2016-06-21 at 08:22 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > +Required properties (in root node):
> > +- compatible value:
> > +     compatible = "arm,<family>,<variant>", "arm,<family>";
> > +  where <family> is one of:
> > +  - "fvp-base" for the Base FVP
> > +  - "fvp-ve" for the VE FVP
> > +  and <variant> is the part of the model's executable filename with
> the family
> > +  name omitted, converted to lower case, and with non-alphanumeric
> characters
> > +  replaced with '-'. E.g. the Base FVP that has two AEMv8 CPU
> clusters has an
> > +  executable file called FVP_Base_AEMv8A-AEMv8A, so the compatible
> value for
> 
> Naming conventions of the exe aren't going to change?

Almost certainly will at some point, as will the very name Fixed Virtual
Platform, what 'families' ARM produce and their naming, and the
configuration of the 'hardware' compiled into the models.

These are software models, so can be changed easily at the whim of
marketing, or current perceived requirements from engineers and
managers. So generally, it's a moving target, that doesn't fit nicely
into the needs producing device-trees.

-- 
Tixy





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