From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@ti.com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>, Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>,
Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>,
devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 20:14:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxGe6uR5VhHsCS1vmayURkGBKmhagaeWBBaCnyfsfOjZ2Dutg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18667A4E-5513-4D74-922F-30D091609F16@antoniou-consulting.com>
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Pantelis Antoniou
<panto@antoniou-consulting.com> wrote:
>> This handles many of the use cases, but it assumes that an overlay is
>> board specific. If it ever is required to support multiple base boards
>> with a single overlay file then there is a problem. The .dtb overlays
>> generated in this manor cannot handle different phandles or nodes that
>> are in a different place. On the other hand, the overlay source files
>> should have no problem being compiled for multiple targets, so maybe
>> it isn't an issue. Plus if dtc is installed on the target, then the
>> live tree from /proc can be used as the reference when compiling the
>> overlay.
>
> My worry is that this format is dependent on linking against the board
> DTS file. One of the ideas thrown around here was that it might make
> sense to store the DTB fragment in the EEPROM of the device.
Right, that wouldn't work well if the base DT changed, or if a
BeagleBone2 is released that has the same header configuration, but
different backing devices. It would be nice to have a solution for
that.
> In that case you have a OS independent hardware description, which can
> be even used even by the bootloader to access devices it knows not about
> at compile time.
>
> Other than that, I have no other objections.
I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any. I have not objections to a
fixup approach, but I'm not comfortable with anything that is fragile
to modifications to the fragment.
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-01 15:17 [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2 Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 17:52 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 18:04 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 18:09 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 18:24 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 19:55 ` Benoit Cousson
2012-10-31 20:12 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 21:26 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 21:36 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 21:43 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 22:00 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-10-31 22:16 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-10-31 22:14 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 7:02 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 10:23 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-01 10:39 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 11:04 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 11:26 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 12:40 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 12:57 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 13:16 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 13:35 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-01 13:59 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 22:05 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 23:49 ` Russ Dill
2012-11-02 8:57 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-02 9:42 ` Russ Dill
2012-11-02 10:39 ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-02 11:00 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-02 16:44 ` Russ Dill
2012-11-02 11:21 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-02 12:32 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-05 0:37 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-05 15:37 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-05 19:10 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-05 19:54 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-05 20:14 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2012-11-05 22:59 ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-05 23:58 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06 3:06 ` Joel A Fernandes
2012-11-06 8:14 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-06 11:16 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-06 13:54 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-02 16:07 ` Jason Kridner
2012-11-02 16:28 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-05 1:05 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-01 11:26 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-01 11:39 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 12:00 ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-01 13:06 ` Felipe Balbi
2012-11-01 13:33 ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-02 8:15 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-02 8:43 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-03 8:23 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <40797D3D-D62C-4E15-B0DF-75636C1637EE-wVdstyuyKrO8r51toPun2/C9HSW9iNxf@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-05 0:22 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-05 13:25 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-05 14:34 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <CACxGe6ubcRqDEGyRbNmwvAMGg5ujAKvPRWe9Vmd9tiHeB7=qNw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-05 15:34 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-05 15:56 ` Rob Herring
2012-11-05 19:40 ` Grant Likely
2012-11-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] omap-device: Remove __init from omap_device_build family functions Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] da8xx-dt: Create da8xx DT adapter device Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 14:36 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-01 14:38 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-11-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] ti-tscadc-dt: Create ti-tscadc-dt " Pantelis Antoniou
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-11-01 18:50 [PATCH 0/3] capebus moving omap_devices to mach-omap2 Jason Kridner
2012-11-01 19:07 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-02 9:26 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-11-02 10:19 ` Koen Kooi
2012-11-05 0:32 ` Grant Likely
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