From: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Bjorn Andersson" <bjorn@kryo.se>,
"Olof Johansson" <olof@lixom.net>,
"Kevin Hilman" <khilman@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"arm@kernel.org" <arm@kernel.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:35:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79FFFE06-191C-404D-8923-48C9C28C61F7@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2155628.BceQuZbXC8@wuerfel>
On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 08:33:04 Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>
>> But are these values actually used by the boot loader?
>>
>> As far as I could see in 8974 the dtbTool provided by Qualcomm
>> extracts the values from the list of dtbs and use them to create the
>> table-of-content in the QCDT blob. The boot loader then looks in this
>> TOC to pick the right dtb to use.
>>
>
> I guess if I understand this right, we just need to fix that dtbTool
> then to look at the top-level compatible property and/or machine
> name instead?
>
> Arnd
Correct, and it means updating the tool for every board/dts that gets created in the future.
Thus, the feeling was that having the ids kept with the dtb made maintenance far easier.
- k
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 21:13 [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id Kumar Gala
2015-03-04 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: qcom: Add support for Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC Kumar Gala
2015-03-04 22:33 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-03-05 15:06 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-05 16:03 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-03-04 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: dts: Add Qualcomm MSM8916 SoC and evaluation board dts Kumar Gala
2015-03-04 21:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-04 21:22 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-05 19:42 ` Kevin Hilman
2015-03-05 20:23 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-06 1:59 ` Olof Johansson
2015-03-06 2:28 ` Rob Clark
[not found] ` <CAF6AEGssMoo6c3nf_7fcATwocuETGZ8nbpGQpUO=KcKWC+rvHw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-06 15:09 ` Christopher Covington
2015-03-06 16:08 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-06 19:15 ` Olof Johansson
2015-03-06 20:37 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-09 12:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-10 17:13 ` Kumar Gala
[not found] ` <F5017A7F-0EA2-41B3-A9DD-6123CCFD36FA-sgV2jX0FEOL9JmXXK+q4OQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-10 17:55 ` Olof Johansson
2015-03-10 18:10 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-10 19:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-10 19:57 ` Kumar Gala
2015-03-11 15:33 ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-03-11 15:57 ` Kumar Gala
[not found] ` <CAJAp7OiVwvPjRbrBxw7Dndvk4Apwz_bx=CzSqeqd3JzYhmB7Kw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-11 20:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-11 20:35 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2015-03-11 21:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-10 22:01 ` Rob Clark
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