From: grant.likely@secretlab.ca (Grant Likely)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:06:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim5C340ZB4Hu1xFQpHAkcWJEgKjMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106142342.29405.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2011 23:21:52 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> Otherwise, if the revision number is effectively non probable, then I
>> would guess it is the device tree's purpose to carry that information
>> somehow, right? ?Maybe this can be appended to the board name string?
>
> That's what I meant with adding it to "compatible", which is a list of
> strings with varying degrees of detailed information, e.g.
>
> ?ti,omap7
> ?ti,omap7-squirrelboard
> ?ti,omap7-squirrelboard-v3
> ?ti,omap7-squirrelboard-v3.17b
>
> You can match the list against a specific revision or a less specific
> identifier if you just want to know whether you are on a squirrelboard
> or a hamsterboard.
Yes, that's generally the right way to handle it. In practice I've
not seen many cases where it is really required, but it doesn't hurt
if somebody wants to include it in the DT for their board.
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-14 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-12 6:06 [PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-12 6:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: zImage: ensure it is always a multiple of 64 bits in size Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 10:43 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-13 11:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-13 14:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-12 6:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: zImage: Allow the appending of a device tree binary Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-12 15:01 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-13 10:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-13 11:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-13 14:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-12 6:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: zImage: make sure appended DTB doesn't get overwritten by kernel .bss Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 10:47 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-12 8:15 ` [PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 8:34 ` Shawn Guo
2011-06-12 9:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 9:38 ` Shawn Guo
2011-06-12 9:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 10:42 ` Shawn Guo
2011-06-12 10:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-13 23:04 ` David Brown
2011-06-13 23:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 7:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 11:25 ` Shawn Guo
2011-06-14 14:53 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-14 17:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 20:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 21:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 21:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-14 22:06 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2011-06-15 8:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-14 22:32 ` Rob Herring
2011-06-14 23:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-15 2:09 ` Rob Herring
2011-06-15 2:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 21:38 ` David Brown
2011-06-14 23:27 ` [PATCH] Support multiple MEM tags with atags->fdt conversion David Brown
2011-06-15 19:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-15 20:15 ` David Brown
2011-06-15 20:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-16 1:43 ` David Gibson
2011-06-20 4:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-20 4:53 ` David Gibson
2011-06-17 20:23 ` David Brown
2011-06-12 11:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] patches to allow DTB to be appended to the ARM zImage Petr Štetiar
2011-06-12 11:58 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 14:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-12 14:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 15:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-06-12 15:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 15:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 20:24 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-13 22:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-13 23:33 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-12 14:57 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-12 15:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 15:47 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-12 15:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-12 18:59 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 9:51 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-13 14:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 14:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-13 15:02 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-13 15:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-13 15:17 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-12 19:26 ` Warner Losh
2011-06-13 9:59 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-06-12 15:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-06-14 0:13 ` David Brown
2011-09-06 11:23 ` Linus Walleij
2011-06-21 1:40 ` David Gibson
2011-06-13 4:31 ` Grant Likely
2011-06-13 20:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-09-05 15:43 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-09-05 19:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
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