Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: ux540: Add ccu8540-uib-v3 Device Tree Machine

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 04:57:56 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Gabriel Fernandez
<gabriel.fernandez.st@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Lee]
>> Is it a new board, or just a UIB?
>
> For me it's a new board.
>
> ccu8540.dts is a board without uib.
> You can can plug on this board some different uibs.
> That's why, i created a ccu8540-uib-v3.dts board in which i included a
> common board ccu8540.dts

So that means that ccu8540.dts will boot the system even
without any UIB if I understand correctly. Anything that
pertains to the UIB should be in the UIB overlay.

> Another solution is to create one *.dtsi file with all uibs for
> ccu8540 and makes a dynamique detection.
> Linus, Lee what do you think about that ?

I'm lost on this, dynamic detection would be done in the
boot loader, usually this just encodes one, static tree.

The first approach seems OK with me.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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