Messages in this thread | | | From | Kevin Hilman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove the need for qcom,{msm-id,board-id,pmic-id} | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:04:07 -0800 |
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Hi Stephen,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> writes:
> This patchset documents a compatible string format that encodes > all the information that was being encoded in qcom specific DT > properties in downstream msm kernels. The goal being to come > up with a format that will allow us to express the information > we want to express without requiring the use of vendor specific > properties. An updated dtbTool will be released after these new > bindings are accepted so that users can work with non-updateable > bootloaders. > > This is an attempt to resolve a discussion around March of this year[1] > where the arm-soc maintainers suggested we express this information > through the board's compatible string.
Thanks for working on this. This indeed looks like the right way to handle this, including updating dtbTool. Very nice.
I guess the DT maintainers should have a crack at the bindings, but otherwise it looks good.
Kevin
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