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From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:50:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C22C18.5090608@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160215194056.GE1640@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi>

On 02/15/2016 08:40 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:21:33PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> flash-kernel has a database /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db with
>> entries like:
>>
>> Machine: LeMaker Banana Pi
>> Kernel-Flavors: armmp armmp-lpae
>> Boot-Script-Path: /boot/boot.scr
>> DTB-Id: sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb
>> U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.sunxi
>> Required-Packages: u-boot-tools
>>
>> Machine refers to the value of /proc/device-tree/model.
>> DTB-Id is the dtb to be installed.
>>
>> So what flash-kernel does is:
>> - look up value of /proc/device-tree/model
>> - retrieve correlated dtb file name from database
>> - install dtb with this name
>> - create symbolic links for the dtb
>>
>> If multiple boards use the the same dtb that is fine with flash-kernel
>> as long as the value of model is unique per dtb.
> 
> OCTEON does not work like this. The file you are modifying
> (octeon_3xxx.dts) is compiled into the kernel, and there is no external
> DTB file. So the model string will be always the same regardless on
> which board you have booted the kernel.
> 
> A.
>
Hello Aaro,

you are right DTBs are built in for MIPS systems.

Still it would be useful to be able to use the same property 'model' to
determine which u-boot script (boot.scr) to install.

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15  5:26 [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt
2016-02-15 11:16 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-02-15 11:19   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-15 17:52   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2016-02-15 18:11     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-02-15 18:35       ` [PATCH 1/1 v2] " Heinrich Schuchardt
2016-02-17  0:20         ` David Daney
2016-02-15 18:38     ` [PATCH 1/1] " Aaro Koskinen
2016-02-15 19:21       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2016-02-15 19:40         ` Aaro Koskinen
2016-02-15 19:50           ` Heinrich Schuchardt [this message]
2016-02-15 19:59             ` Aaro Koskinen

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