Re: [PATCH RFC v3 1/9] libfdt: board-id: Implement board-id scoring

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Tue May 21 2024 - 15:28:16 EST


On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:37:58AM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:
> The devicetree spec introduced a mechanism to match devicetree blobs to
> boards using firmware-provided identifiers.

Can you share a link to where the devicetree spec introduced this
mechanism? I don't recall seeing a PR to dt-schema for it nor did a
quick check of the devicetree specification repo show a PR adding it.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Conor.

> Although the matching can be
> implemented by DTB loaders, having a canonical implementation makes it
> easier to integrate and ensure consistent behavior across ecosystems.
>
> I've not yet investigated swig/python support for the new functions; I
> would work on that before submitting the patch to libfdt.

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