Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: chosen: Document linux,initrd-{start,end}

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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:01:47PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > These properties have been in use for a very long time (at least since
> > 2005), but were never documented in chosen.txt.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> Applied.

Thanks.

> I'm inclined to say to document these in the DT spec, but I'm assuming 
> there was some reason why they weren't put into the spec (ePAPR at the 
> time) originally.

I don't know about the history of this, but I think if and when these
properties were specified in DTSpec, they should get a non-linux-specific
name, such as initrd-start/initrd-end, and a compatibility fallback to
linux,initrd-* (similar to stdout-path and phandle).


Jonathan Neuschäfer

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