On 3/19/2015 1:12 AM, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > Hi, > > On 19/03/2015 04:29, Frank Rowand wrote: >> Rob, >> >> Can this be added to the next trees to get some test exposure before submitting >> to Linus? >> >> There is currently no way to tie a device tree blob (DTB) back to the source >> and environment used to create it. Add this information, including a DTB >> version number, which is somewhat analogous to the Linux kernel version number. >> >> The DTB version number is independent of the kernel version number, and is >> incremented for each make of one or more DTBs. >> >> The DTB information is placed in node /chosen/dtb-info. The data for this >> node will be automatically generated by the .dtb make system for any .dts >> that includes arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi, either directly or indirectly. >> This means that architectures other than arm will not receive this feature. >> This can be added to other architectures by modifying their skeleton.dtsi. >> >> There are 70 of the 557 arm .dts files that do not include skeleton.dtsi. >> Thus the .dtb files created for these systems will not have the >> /chosen/dtb-info node: > > About the following list some of them use skeleton64.dtsi instead of > skeleton.dtsi. All the armada-xp-*.dts uses it and also axm5516-amarillo.dts > (through axm55xx.dtsi), the ls1021a-*.dts, the mt8127-moose.dts, the > mt8135-evbp1.dts and the sun9i-a80-optimus.dts. > > So maybe it would worth updating skeleton64.dtsi. Thanks for noticing that! I'll add skeleton64.dtsi. > > For the other ones it seems that actually they use skeleton.dtsi but not > through a dtsi file. I'll go check again. > > Thanks, > > Gregory > > >> >> armada-xp-axpwifiap.dts >> armada-xp-db.dts >> armada-xp-gp.dts >> armada-xp-lenovo-ix4-300d.dts >> armada-xp-matrix.dts >> armada-xp-netgear-rn2120.dts >> armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4.dts >> armada-xp-synology-ds414.dts >> atlas6-evb.dts >> atlas7-evb.dts >> axm5516-amarillo.dts >> bcm2835-rpi-b-plus.dts >> bcm2835-rpi-b.dts >> ea3250.dts >> ecx-2000.dts >> highbank.dts >> hip04-d01.dts >> integratorap.dts >> integratorcp.dts >> ls1021a-qds.dts >> ls1021a-twr.dts >> meson6-atv1200.dts >> moxart-uc7112lx.dts >> mt8127-moose.dts >> mt8135-evbp1.dts >> nspire-clp.dts >> nspire-cx.dts >> nspire-tp.dts >> phy3250.dts >> picoxcell-pc7302-pc3x2.dts >> picoxcell-pc7302-pc3x3.dts >> prima2-evb.dts >> r7s72100-genmai.dts >> r8a73a4-ape6evm-reference.dts >> r8a73a4-ape6evm.dts >> r8a7790-lager.dts >> r8a7791-henninger.dts >> r8a7791-koelsch.dts >> r8a7794-alt.dts >> spear1310-evb.dts >> spear1340-evb.dts >> spear300-evb.dts >> spear310-evb.dts >> spear320-evb.dts >> spear320-hmi.dts >> spear600-evb.dts >> stih407-b2120.dts >> stih410-b2120.dts >> stih415-b2000.dts >> stih415-b2020.dts >> stih416-b2000.dts >> stih416-b2020.dts >> stih416-b2020e.dts >> stih418-b2199.dts >> sun9i-a80-optimus.dts >> vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts >> vexpress-v2p-ca15_a7.dts >> vexpress-v2p-ca5s.dts >> vexpress-v2p-ca9.dts >> vt8500-bv07.dts >> wm8505-ref.dts >> wm8650-mid.dts >> wm8750-apc8750.dts >> wm8850-w70v2.dts >> xenvm-4.2.dts >> zynq-parallella.dts >> zynq-zc702.dts >> zynq-zc706.dts >> zynq-zed.dts >> zynq-zybo.dts >> >> >> >> An example of the DTB information reported is: >> >> $ echo ; cat /proc/version; echo ; echo ; dmesg | grep DTB >> >> Linux version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank@buildhost) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 20:04:48 PDT 2015 >> >> >> DTB version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank@buildhost) (DTC 1.4.0-dirty) #4 Wed Mar 18 20:04:11 PDT 2015 >> DTB linux version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank@build_host) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 20:02:46 PDT 2015 >> DTB source /local/nobackup/src/git_linus/linux--4.0/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-apq8074-dragonboard.dts >> DTB blob arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-apq8074-dragonboard.dtb >> >> >> The values of the /chosen/dtb-info/ properties are also available in >> /proc/device-tree/chosen/dtb-info/ >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
