From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: galak@codeaurora.org (Kumar Gala) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:22:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom, msm-id and qcom, board-id In-Reply-To: <2483237.3YTlNsnOp7@wuerfel> References: <1425503602-24916-1-git-send-email-galak@codeaurora.org> <2483237.3YTlNsnOp7@wuerfel> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 15:13:20 Kumar Gala wrote: >> The top level qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id are utilized by bootloaders >> on Qualcomm MSM platforms to determine which device tree should be >> utilized and passed to the kernel. >> >> Cc: >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala > > This seems to duplicate the root-node compatible strings for no particular > reason, with a less flexible format. I think it would be better to fix > the boot loader. While I wish that was an option, this is a solution that has been shipping on MSM platforms and phones for some time. - k -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project