Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Dec 2017 06:41:39 +0100 | From | Jonathan Neuschäfer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: chosen: Document linux,initrd-{start,end} |
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:01:47PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:33:02PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote: > > These properties have been in use for a very long time (at least since > > 2005), but were never documented in chosen.txt. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> > > --- > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) > > Applied.
Thanks.
> I'm inclined to say to document these in the DT spec, but I'm assuming > there was some reason why they weren't put into the spec (ePAPR at the > time) originally.
I don't know about the history of this, but I think if and when these properties were specified in DTSpec, they should get a non-linux-specific name, such as initrd-start/initrd-end, and a compatibility fallback to linux,initrd-* (similar to stdout-path and phandle).
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