Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute

[Aaro Koskinen]

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.