Re: [PATCH 1/6] arm64: Unconditionally call unflatten_device_tree()

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Hi Mark,

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 12:07:44PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Call this function unconditionally so that we can populate an empty DTB
> > on platforms that don't boot with a firmware provided or builtin DTB.
> > There's no harm in calling unflatten_device_tree() unconditionally.
>
> For better or worse, that's not true: there are systems the provide both a DTB
> *and* ACPI tables, and we must not consume both at the same time as those can
> clash and cause all sorts of problems. In addition, we don't want people being
> "clever" and describing disparate portions of their system in ACPI and DT.

We'd get to the latter anyway, when plugging in a USB device where the
circuitry on/behind the USB device is described in DT.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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