From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Andersson Subject: Re: [RFC V2 PATCH 10/12] arm64: dts: msm8994 issolate non standard bootloader/LK entries Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:44:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20161021194437.GA7509@tuxbot> References: <1475375919-618-1-git-send-email-jmcnicol@redhat.com> <2149904.D2eaQZN3bA@wuerfel> <17447be1-4357-0eca-a242-69576d3e2799@redhat.com> <4976066.k14mpQt0HJ@wuerfel> <20161019214643.GC3145@hector.attlocal.net> <20161020031712.GD3145@hector.attlocal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161020031712.GD3145-3KkwrOJo9xYlRp7syxWybdHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andy Gross Cc: Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann , Jeremy McNicoll , Stephen Boyd , git-LJ92rlH3Dns@public.gmane.org, Jeremy McNicoll , linux-arm-msm , linux-soc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed 19 Oct 20:17 PDT 2016, Andy Gross wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:07:25PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: [..] > > Makes sense to me for things like Nexus phones here. What about DB410 > > for example? Is there hope for a fix there? My bootloader is only a > > couple of months old and needs the properties still. > > There won't be a fix for the 410c. We barely got them to respin to use PSCI. > Stephen can correct me if I am wrong on this. > > If this is fixed, it would be 8996+. If.......... > > So this means introducing the msm-id's for the boards that currently require it, > and for the boards that will require it in the future. And this would stay in > effect until the bootloader is able to parse the compatible strings or figure > this out without the msm-ids. > But if the bootloader at any point in the future would support picking a dtb by compatible strings instead of {msm,board,pmic}-id we wouldn't we just be back to the ridiculous compatible strings that tipped over into acceptance to these ids in the first place. Or do we expect the boot loader to do a deep scan of the dtb to match on multiple nodes from the tree? Am I missing something here? Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html