On Wednesday 11 March 2015 15:35:22 Kumar Gala wrote: > 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. > Part of my objection was to having nonstandard properties that are not even used anywhere in the kernel. If you could just encode them in the root compatible property as a string, that would be a lot nicer. Arnd -- 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
