Hi,
I have an Android phone that I'd like to see running on the mainline kernel one day. Currently it runs a downstream 4.4 kernel. Since the stock (closed source) bootloader on the phone only really checks the SOC in a property in the DTBs but not the model of the phone, I'm sure a DTS for the phone wouldn't be accepted in the kernel, because it would match other devices with the same SOC. My question is this: Would DTSIs for it's SOC, and its components be merged without any DTS actually including them? That way if the phone would ever get a more proper bootloader for it that checks the model properly, the only thing that would need to be done is just making a DTS with the correct compatible property in it, and until then if someone would want to run it on his phone, the diff between the fork they would need to use and upstream would just be the DTS.
Thanks,
David
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