On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:13:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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. I don't understand what you mean there; where is the DT description of the USB device coming from if the DTB hasn't been unflattened? Mark.