From: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Mark Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mtd: partitions: Add RedBoot FIS DT bindings
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:08:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181025190825.GA15870@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkda=1CNzZe1ACGm9nwVDGbHdAxhWzpqcANs-KKBhPpNF-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:27:24AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi,
>
> now just to forestall possible predictable bikeshedding on the devicetree
> list before it happens:
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:06 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > +RedBoot FLASH Image System (FIS) Partitions
>
> This expansion of the acronym including using capital letters in
> FLASH comes from the eCOS source code for RedBoot:
> https://sourceware.org/viewvc/ecos/packages/redboot/current/src/flash.c?view=markup
>
> > +- compatible : (required) must be "redboot-fis"
>
> There is no vendor here because the source code was owned by
> Cygnus Solutions, Redhat and now Free Software Foundation.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECos
>
> We have no (AFAICT) policy for whether stuff that just change vendor
> all the time should be named after the inventing (first) company "cygnus,*",
> current owner "fsf,*" or the one that made most changes to the source
> code "redhat,*". I do not think we should care, and just name it
> "redboot-fis" for it's historical value and widespread acceptance so this
> is a conscious naming scheme.
>
> If one of the OF maintainers says they want it a certain way I will change
> it without discussion, I just want this supported.
It's all fine for me.
I was only going to comment is Redboot still a thing? :)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-25 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-19 7:06 [PATCH 1/3] mtd: Move Redboot partition parser Linus Walleij
2018-10-19 7:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] mtd: partitions: Add RedBoot FIS DT bindings Linus Walleij
2018-10-19 7:27 ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-19 7:52 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-10-25 19:08 ` Rob Herring [this message]
2018-10-28 19:24 ` Linus Walleij
2018-10-25 19:08 ` Rob Herring
2018-10-19 7:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] mtd: partitions: Add OF support to RedBoot partitions Linus Walleij
2018-10-19 7:59 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-10-22 9:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] mtd: Move Redboot partition parser Boris Brezillon
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