Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:37:50 +0100 | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] arm: devtree: Set system_rev from DT "/revision" |
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On Monday 28 December 2015 23:27:17 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2015 13:01:22 Frank Rowand wrote: > > > > Patch 2/5 copies the value from ATAG_REVISION into the fdt "/revision" > > property. > > > > If the use of /revision is limited to being a location to hold an ATAG > > value to pass to the global variable system_rev, then it would make > > sense to just copy directly from the ATAG value into system_rev in the > > same board file where you are copying the ATAGs. > > Agreed. That would be simpler, and avoid a situation where someone relies > on the /revision property in DT to be set from the atags compat code > (preventing an upgrade to a newer bootloader), or on the system_rev variable > to be the same across multiple boot loaders, in the absence of other > kernel code setting it.
So, set system_rev only for Nokia N900? At same place where is called save_atags()?
-- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com
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