From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm1-f65.google.com ([209.85.128.65]:55221 "EHLO mail-wm1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726982AbgATSSG (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:18:06 -0500 Received: by mail-wm1-f65.google.com with SMTP id b19so278900wmj.4 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:17:14 +0000 From: Steve McIntyre Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option Message-ID: <20200120181708.GN3697@linaro.org> References: <20200113181625.3130-1-alexandre.torgue@st.com> <20200113181625.3130-2-alexandre.torgue@st.com> <20200116005741.GB54439@umbus> <20200117090937.GU54439@umbus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Rob Herring Cc: David Gibson , Alexandre Torgue , Frank Rowand , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Simon Glass , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Devicetree Compiler On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 08:43:23AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: >On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:26 AM David Gibson > wrote: ... >> What might be better would be to have a dtc option which force appends >> an extra .dts to the mail .dts compiled. You can then put an overlay >> template in that file, something like: >> >> &{/} { >> linux,build-info = /incbin/ "build-info.txt; >> } > >I like this suggestion either as an include another dts file or an >overlay. The latter could be useful as a way to maintain current dtb >files while splitting the source files into base and overlay dts >files. ACK, that sounds like it could be helpful. >But no, let's not prepend this with 'linux'. It's not a property >specific for Linux to consume. Right. We might be seeing the data coming through from U-Boot (or any other random bootloader) too. Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs