Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:52:20PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 02/15/2016 12:16 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 2/15/2016 8:26 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >> Downstream packages like Debian flash-kernel rely on
> >> /proc/device-tree/model
> >> to determine how to install an updated kernel image.
> 
> Would you support a patch having the following strings?
> 
> model = "CAVM, Octeon 3860";
> model = "CAVM, Octeon 6880";

The built-in DTBs are shared by multiple completely different boards
(from multiple different manufacturers). How would those strings help
for cases like flash-kernel?

A.




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