Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:30:13 +0530 | From | Santosh Shilimkar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC 8/8] ARM: dts: am43-pre-silicon support |
| |
On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:22 PM, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > Hi Santosh, > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 16:05:22, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote: >> On Monday 18 February 2013 05:08 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote: > >>> AM43 SoC is in pre-silicon stage, meanwhile it has been modelled in >>> a pre-silicon platform. To validate and boot Linux in pre-silicon >>> platform that emulates an AM43 SoC, add DT build support. > >>> Note: This would be replaced by an original board support. > >>> - am335x-bone.dtb >>> + am335x-bone.dtb \ >>> + am43-pre-silicon.dtb > >> Well the pre-silicon platform and the SOC are very >> close and at least the support you are adding here is >> exactly same. So lets just use am437x.dtb or something >> like that. > > SoC support is already added in patch 7/8. This is board (which doesn't > exist now) support, hence a pre-silicon temporary one to validate it. > I mean we can call it am437x-xyxboard.dtb already considering the data here can be re-used. Boot-args can be used from default kernel config with CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE.
No strong opinion if you still insist to have a pre-silicon dtb.
Regards, Santosh
| |