On 10/04, Rob Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Nicolas Dechesne > > <nicolas.dechesne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla > >>> <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 03/10/17 10:11, Linus Walleij wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Naming the DragonBoard 410c "SBC" (I guess "single board computer") > >>>>> is not very helpful for users looking for their device tree in > >>>>> the kernel. Also the db820c is named properly. > >>>>> > >>>>> Rectify this, simply, do not change the compatible strings but name > >>>>> the DTS files in a consistent manner. > >>>>> > >>>>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>>> > >>>> I did not like the sbc naming convention too, This was primarily done due to > >>>> some legacy build tools + bootloaders which have used sbc compatible to > >>>> identify boards from multiple dtb blobs. Now that we can append dtb to > >>>> kernel with new LK, this should not be a issue anymore. > >>> > >>> maybe it would be an idea to update skales/dbttool first to look for > >>> the new name, and then give people some time to upgrade, before > >>> changing this in the kernel. Otherwise I expect you'll cause some > >>> confusion.. > >> > >> iirc, skale is using the compatible name, not the filename. > >> > > > > ahh, yes, I think you are right.. u-boot is using a different filename. > > > > So in this case, no issue to pick a saner name :-) > > > > So, actually u-boot encodes the board's fdtname.. so as much as I'd > like to rename it to something more sane, unless the kernel can manage > to install a symlink for backwards compat, NAK > > I was trying to think of hacks for u-boot to check for multiple fdt > names, but if we want to get to the point of being able to install > multiple distro's on a single disk, we actually need to pass fdtname > to grub (where distro specific grub.cfg is encoding the UUID of the > distro's /boot partition, so it knows where to load the dtb from).. > this gets nearly impossible when one name becomes multiple names. So > hurray for the fdt name becoming accidental ABI! > > If we managed to get this in before the 4.14 LTS I might feel > differently. But afterwards, totally not. :-( > How do you install dtbs onto your device? Should be simple enough to run 'mv' on the new filename to the old one? -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
