On Tuesday 09 August 2022 14:39:05 Tim Harvey wrote: > I've been wondering the same as well which made me wonder what the > history of the 'aliases' node is and why its not used in most cases in > Linux. I know for the SOC's I work with we've always defined aliases > for ethernet<n>, gpio<n>, serial<n>, spi<n>, i2c<n>, mmc<n> etc. Where > did this practice come from and why are we putting that in Linux dts > files it if it's not used by Linux? U-Boot can modify on-the-fly Linux's DTB file when booting Linux kernel. For example it can put permanent MAC address into ethernet nodes from U-Boot env. Similarly it can modify other DT nodes. So even when Linux itself does not use particular alias, it is used by the bootloader.
