From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Subject: Re: Unifying cape overlays into boot .dtb for BeagleBoard.org boards Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:58:24 -0400 Message-ID: <53A05790.7090803@ti.com> References: <20140617090931.GB3705@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <53A03675.1000908@ti.com> <20140617125640.GC3705@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Reply-To: beagleboard-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140617125640.GC3705-l+eeeJia6m9vn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org> List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: beagleboard-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jason Kridner , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "beagleboard-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org" , OMAP List , Robert Nelson , ARM Kernel List List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2014 08:56 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 08:37:09AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote: >> On 06/17/2014 05:09 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>> A good way that this could have been done is to put an I2C EEPROM on >>> each cape, and have that store the DT fragment. The boot loader could >>> have then read that from each cape, and used that information to build >>> up the final DT. Why this hasn't been thought of, considering that the >>> kernel has been moving towards DT for years, is quite unbelievable. >> >> I had actually talked about this a long while back (face to face) with >> people, but the problem was (and still kind of is) the bindings >> changing, etc. > > And that's a strong argument for having stable bindings - or at the > very least, ensuring that new bindings which are compatible with older > versions. Yes. This was a few years back (a bit before the first beaglebone was public) so before we had really pushed up on some level of binding stability. -- Tom -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.