linux-kernel - Re: Handling of modular boards

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2012 22:33:57 +0200
From:	Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...b.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Igor Grinberg <grinberg@...pulab.co.il>,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Handling of modular boards

Dear Arnd,

In message <201205041934.08830.arnd@...db.de> you wrote:
>
> One idea that I've heard before is to put device tree fragments into the
> kernel and dynamically add them to the device tree that was passed by the
> boot loader whenever we detect the presence of a specific device.
> This obviously means it works only for boards using DT for booting, but
> it allows us to use some infrastructure that we already have.
> 
> Another idea was to put all the possible extensions into the device tree
> for a given board and disable them by default, putting it into the
> responsibility of the boot loader to enable the one that is actually
> being used. This has serious scalibility problems when there are many
> possible extensions and also relies more on the boot loader than I would
> like.

On the other hand, some of the issues we're trying to solve here
for the kernel are also present in the boot loader, so this needs to
do this anyway - whether by inserting new or modifying (enabling or
disabling) existing properties in the DT is not really relevant here.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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