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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id
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    On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

    > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 15:13:20 Kumar Gala wrote:
    >> The top level qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id are utilized by bootloaders
    >> on Qualcomm MSM platforms to determine which device tree should be
    >> utilized and passed to the kernel.
    >>
    >> Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
    >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
    >
    > This seems to duplicate the root-node compatible strings for no particular
    > reason, with a less flexible format. I think it would be better to fix
    > the boot loader.

    While I wish that was an option, this is a solution that has been shipping on MSM platforms and phones for some time.

    - k

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