Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/9] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

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Hi Elliot,

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 11:17, Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 07:17:35AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Elliot,
> >
> > I am just picking up the discussion here, which was started on another thread.
> >
> > I can't see why this new feature is needed. We should be able to use
> > compatible strings, as we do now. I added a 'usage' section to the FIT
> > spec [1] which might help. I also incorporated the board revision and
> > variant information and some notes on how to add to the available
> > suffixes.
> >
> > Does that handle your use case?
>
> -rev and -sku don't fit the versioning scheme for QTI devices, so this
> isn't a generic enough approach. Patch 5 in this series describes the
> versioning scheme for us.
>
> In the other thread, we had talked about using some regex based approach
> for matching the root node compatible. I haven't had chance to work on
> that proposal and will try to get to it in the next couple weeks.

OK, I look forward to it. Please do check the FIT best match approach
and see how it might be extended to handle your requirements. So far I
have not seen a need for regexes, but it is certainly a possibility.

Regards,
Simon




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