Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Tue Jan 23 2024 - 06:50:23 EST


On 22/01/2024 11:10, Amrit Anand wrote:
>
> On 1/21/2024 12:40 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
>> On 1/20/2024 3:20 AM, Amrit Anand wrote:
>>> From: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Device manufacturers frequently ship multiple boards or SKUs under a
>>> single software package. These software packages will ship multiple
>>> devicetree blobs and require some mechanism to pick the correct DTB for
>>> the board the software package was deployed. Introduce a common
>>> definition for adding board identifiers to device trees. board-id
>>> provides a mechanism for bootloaders to select the appropriate DTB which
>>> is vendor/OEM-agnostic.
>> Please extend CC list to more architectures? linux-arm-kernel, risc-v etc; since
>> the proposal below is not specific to ARM but any architecture is using the
>> devicetree.
> Wouldn't devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will have concern folks from all the
> architectures?
> Please correct me.

No.

Best regards,
Krzysztof