Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:38:39 +0200 | From | Aaro Koskinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute |
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Hi,
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:52:20PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 02/15/2016 12:16 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > On 2/15/2016 8:26 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > >> Downstream packages like Debian flash-kernel rely on > >> /proc/device-tree/model > >> to determine how to install an updated kernel image. > > Would you support a patch having the following strings? > > model = "CAVM, Octeon 3860"; > model = "CAVM, Octeon 6880";
The built-in DTBs are shared by multiple completely different boards (from multiple different manufacturers). How would those strings help for cases like flash-kernel?
A.
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