Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: bcm2835: Specify /system/linux,revision property

From: J. Neuschäfer
Date: Tue Jul 09 2024 - 15:53:22 EST


On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08/07/2024 01:08, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > The Raspberry Pi bootloader provides a revision code[0] in the
> > devicetree, at /system/linux,revision. This patch adds
> > /system/linux,revision to the schema to allow it to be used in
> > mainline Linux.
>
> Sorry, no, we do not document stuff for various out of tree things.
> Otherwise we would have to accept hundreds of ridiculous, vendor properties.

Fair enough.

> Fix your bootloader or make it upstream.

There is no open source upstream for this bootloader. It is (sadly)
Broadcom's own proprietary code.

Not sure what fixing it would entail.


Jonathan