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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org"
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Merging device trees at runtime for module-based systems
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:36:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5091FC38.2020806@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5091BAAA.5010809@firmworks.com>

On 10/31/2012 05:56 PM, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 1:00 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> cc devicetree-discuss. Here's a reference to the full thread:
>>
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/145221/
>>
>> On 26.10.2012 20:39, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2012 03:47 AM, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> a project I'm involved in uses a module/baseboard combo, and components
>>>> on either board are described in DT. I'm currently using separate dts
>>>> files which build upon each other with include statements, which works
>>>> fine for development.
>>>>
>>>> In production though, we will certainly have running changes (and hence
>>>> different versions) over the lifetime of the product for both the
>>>> baseboard and the module, and the hardware has support for identifying
>>>> the versions of both sides at runtime.
...
>> I start to believe that the cleanest solution to this would be to
>> have full DTC functionality in U-Boot and compile the tree
> 
> ... which is exactly the way that Open Firmware does it, since the
> invention of the device tree.  The model is that the boot firmware,
> which needs to know the system configuration to do its job anyway,
> exports that configuration via the device tree.

Doesn't OF generate the DT from internal data structures (although I
don't know where those come from...), whereas what Daniel mentions above
is more like the bootloader having access to a bunch of .dts fragments,
selecting the appropriate subset of those to use, parsing them into an
internal data structure (i.e. running dtc), and then generating a DTB
from it. The overall result is that the bootloader causes a DTB to be
generated at run-time, so at that level it's the same, but the
implementation seems pretty different.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-01  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5087B919.2010006@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <508AD8F9.8030105@wwwdotorg.org>
2012-10-31 23:00   ` Merging device trees at runtime for module-based systems Daniel Mack
2012-10-31 23:13     ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-31 23:21       ` Daniel Mack
     [not found]     ` <5091AD78.3060701-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-10-31 23:56       ` [U-Boot] " Mitch Bradley
2012-11-01  4:36         ` Stephen Warren [this message]
     [not found]           ` <5091FC38.2020806-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-01  5:02             ` Mitch Bradley
2012-11-02  4:53             ` David Gibson
2012-11-06 23:05       ` Grant Likely

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