linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id

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Message-ID: <2155628.BceQuZbXC8@wuerfel>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:20:31 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@...o.se>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arm@...nel.org" <arm@...nel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id

On Wednesday 11 March 2015 08:33:04 Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> 
> But are these values actually used by the boot loader?
> 
> As far as I could see in 8974 the dtbTool provided by Qualcomm
> extracts the values from the list of dtbs and use them to create the
> table-of-content in the QCDT blob. The boot loader then looks in this
> TOC to pick the right dtb to use.
> 

I guess if I understand this right, we just need to fix that dtbTool
then to look at the top-level compatible property and/or machine
name instead?

	Arnd


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