Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/9] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

Konrad Dybcio
2024-05-24T15:51:06Z

On 21.05.2024 9:00 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Hi Elliot,
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 21:41, Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Device manufacturers frequently ship multiple boards or SKUs under a
>> single software package. These software packages will ship multiple
>> devicetree blobs and require some mechanism to pick the correct DTB for
>> the board the software package was deployed. Introduce a common
>> definition for adding board identifiers to device trees. board-id
>> provides a mechanism for bootloaders to select the appropriate DTB which
>> is vendor/OEM-agnostic.
>
> This is a v3 of the RFC, however it is still a qcom-only series. Might
> I suggest gaining an actual interest from any other hardware vendor
> (in the form of the patches) before posting v4? Otherwise it might
> still end up being a Qualcomm solution which is not supported and/or
> used by other hardware vendors.

AMD should be onboard [1].

Konrad

[1] https://resources.linaro.org/en/resource/q7U3Rr7m3ZbZmXzYK7A9u3