On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2015 08:33:04 Bjorn Andersson wrote: >> >> But are these values actually used by the boot loader? >> >> As far as I could see in 8974 the dtbTool provided by Qualcomm >> extracts the values from the list of dtbs and use them to create the >> table-of-content in the QCDT blob. The boot loader then looks in this >> TOC to pick the right dtb to use. >> > > I guess if I understand this right, we just need to fix that dtbTool > then to look at the top-level compatible property and/or machine > name instead? > > Arnd Correct, and it means updating the tool for every board/dts that gets created in the future. Thus, the feeling was that having the ids kept with the dtb made maintenance far easier. - k -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- 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
