From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shilimkar Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 8/8] ARM: dts: am43-pre-silicon support Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:30:13 +0530 Message-ID: <51235B3D.5000907@ti.com> References: <5123556A.9050109@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devicetree-discuss-bounces+gldd-devicetree-discuss=m.gmane.org-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org Sender: "devicetree-discuss" To: "Mohammed, Afzal" Cc: Russell King , "linux-doc-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "Nori, Sekhar" , "devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" , Nicolas Pitre , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Rob Herring , "Syed Mohammed, Khasim" , "linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:22 PM, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > Hi Santosh, > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 16:05:22, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote: >> On Monday 18 February 2013 05:08 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote: > >>> AM43 SoC is in pre-silicon stage, meanwhile it has been modelled in >>> a pre-silicon platform. To validate and boot Linux in pre-silicon >>> platform that emulates an AM43 SoC, add DT build support. > >>> Note: This would be replaced by an original board support. > >>> - am335x-bone.dtb >>> + am335x-bone.dtb \ >>> + am43-pre-silicon.dtb > >> Well the pre-silicon platform and the SOC are very >> close and at least the support you are adding here is >> exactly same. So lets just use am437x.dtb or something >> like that. > > SoC support is already added in patch 7/8. This is board (which doesn't > exist now) support, hence a pre-silicon temporary one to validate it. > I mean we can call it am437x-xyxboard.dtb already considering the data here can be re-used. Boot-args can be used from default kernel config with CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE. No strong opinion if you still insist to have a pre-silicon dtb. Regards, Santosh