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From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Mark Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: partitions: Add RedBoot FIS DT bindings
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:08:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181025190825.GA15870@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkda=1CNzZe1ACGm9nwVDGbHdAxhWzpqcANs-KKBhPpNF-w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:27:24AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> now just to forestall possible predictable bikeshedding on the devicetree
> list before it happens:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:06 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > +RedBoot FLASH Image System (FIS) Partitions
> 
> This expansion of the acronym including using capital letters in
> FLASH comes from the eCOS source code for RedBoot:
> https://sourceware.org/viewvc/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/flash.c?view=markup
> 
> > +- compatible : (required) must be "redboot-fis"
> 
> There is no vendor here because the source code was owned by
> Cygnus Solutions, Redhat and now Free Software Foundation.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECos
> 
> We have no (AFAICT) policy for whether stuff that just change vendor
> all the time should be named after the inventing (first) company "cygnus,*",
> current owner "fsf,*" or the one that made most changes to the source
> code "redhat,*". I do not think we should care, and just name it
> "redboot-fis" for it's historical value and widespread acceptance so this
> is a conscious naming scheme.
> 
> If one of the OF maintainers says they want it a certain way I will change
> it without discussion, I just want this supported.

It's all fine for me.

I was only going to comment is Redboot still a thing? :)

Rob

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Mark Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: partitions: Add RedBoot FIS DT bindings
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:08:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181025190825.GA15870@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkda=1CNzZe1ACGm9nwVDGbHdAxhWzpqcANs-KKBhPpNF-w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:27:24AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> now just to forestall possible predictable bikeshedding on the devicetree
> list before it happens:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:06 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > +RedBoot FLASH Image System (FIS) Partitions
> 
> This expansion of the acronym including using capital letters in
> FLASH comes from the eCOS source code for RedBoot:
> https://sourceware.org/viewvc/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/flash.c?view=markup
> 
> > +- compatible : (required) must be "redboot-fis"
> 
> There is no vendor here because the source code was owned by
> Cygnus Solutions, Redhat and now Free Software Foundation.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECos
> 
> We have no (AFAICT) policy for whether stuff that just change vendor
> all the time should be named after the inventing (first) company "cygnus,*",
> current owner "fsf,*" or the one that made most changes to the source
> code "redhat,*". I do not think we should care, and just name it
> "redboot-fis" for it's historical value and widespread acceptance so this
> is a conscious naming scheme.
> 
> If one of the OF maintainers says they want it a certain way I will change
> it without discussion, I just want this supported.

It's all fine for me.

I was only going to comment is Redboot still a thing? :)

Rob

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-25 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-19  7:06 [PATCH 1/3] mtd: Move Redboot partition parser Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] mtd: partitions: Add RedBoot FIS DT bindings Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:06   ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:27   ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:27     ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:52     ` Boris Brezillon
2018-10-19  7:52       ` Boris Brezillon
2018-10-25 19:08     ` Rob Herring [this message]
2018-10-25 19:08       ` Rob Herring
2018-10-28 19:24       ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-28 19:24         ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-25 19:08   ` Rob Herring
2018-10-25 19:08     ` Rob Herring
2018-10-19  7:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] mtd: partitions: Add OF support to RedBoot partitions Linus Walleij
2018-10-19  7:59   ` Boris Brezillon
2018-10-22  9:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] mtd: Move Redboot partition parser Boris Brezillon

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