On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:21:24PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote: >> Pass barebox-detected bootsource and bootsource instance to Linux to >> make it availible to Linux userspace. We use put the version under >> /chosen/bootsource and it can be read under Linux in >> >> /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/chosen/bootsource > > I like the idea of having the bootsource available in Linux and more > than once thought about implementing it. However, I don't think it's > good to put the rather adhoc strings from barebox into the devicetree. > > I'd rather have a phandle pointing to the actual device providing the > bootsource. Something like converting bootsource/bootsource_instance > into an alias name, lookup that alias in the device tree and create a > phandle pointing to the node the alias points to aswell. This may be > more complicated, but this way we do not have to think up any mapping. > OK, that does sound like a better idea. I'll give it a try and submit results in v2. Thanks, Andrey Smirnov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
