Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:15:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> writes: >>>> >>>>> The top level qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id are utilized by bootloaders >>>>> on Qualcomm MSM platforms to determine which device tree should be >>>>> utilized and passed to the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> >>>> >>>> Is this the special magic that allows qcom bootloaders to take a kernel >>>> plus multiple DTBs and figure out which DTB to pass? >>>> >>>> Kevin >>> >>> yes >> >> That's a bummer. >> >> Luckily, the solution for upstream is still quite simple: Provide only >> one devicetree, and it'll be used, right? > > We can provide only one, we still need the IDs in the DT.
How are the DTS provided? Concatenated with the kernel, or in a wrapped data format? Or in a separate partition from the kernel?
-Olof
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