Hi, On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:17:31AM -0800, David Daney wrote: > On 01/21/2015 08:54 AM, Mark Rutland wrote: > >While the DTB may already exist, the string "cavium,octeon-7130-ahci" > >isn't in mainline, and as far as I can see has never been supported. > > There seems to be a disconnect here. The DTB comes from the hardware boot > environment. The hardware is in some cases already deployed. It is for all > practical purposes, impossible to change the DTB. It's possible to change/fix the DTB in platform code like currently done for the OCTEON in-tree DTBs. But that's ugly. I think there should be also a mechanism to override the DTB completely with a user supplied one like with kernel APPENDED_DTB on ARM. A.
