linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option

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Message-ID: <c3732a75-83bc-890f-9a02-d3a61c626a6c@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:54:52 -0600
From:   Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
To:     Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>, ian@...ebsd.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Devicetree Compiler <devicetree-compiler@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option

On 1/22/20 12:00 PM, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 1/20/20 7:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 08:43:23AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:26 AM David Gibson
>>> <david@...son.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> What might be better would be to have a dtc option which force appends
>>>> an extra .dts to the mail .dts compiled.  You can then put an overlay
>>>> template in that file, something like:
>>>>
>>>> &{/} {
>>>>          linux,build-info = /incbin/ "build-info.txt;
>>>> }
>>>
>>> I like this suggestion either as an include another dts file or an
>>> overlay. The latter could be useful as a way to maintain current dtb
>>> files while splitting the source files into base and overlay dts
>>> files.
>>
>> ACK, that sounds like it could be helpful.
>>
>>> But no, let's not prepend this with 'linux'. It's not a property
>>> specific for Linux to consume.
>>
>> Right. We might be seeing the data coming through from U-Boot (or any
>> other random bootloader) too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> 
> Thanks for reviews. I gonna prepare a V2 with David proposition (to use overlay format) by keeping in mind not to modify existing dts(i) files.
> 
> Remaining questions are:
> 
> 1- "build-info" or "linux,build-info"? IMO, If information is
> "generic" then first one should be used.


I would prefer build-info.  The data may be generated by a non-linux
build environment, such as uboot.


> 2- Looking at Franck proposition[1] some years ago and objections on
> it, do you think that this one could accepted ?

I think that with the few small changes suggested in this thread, that
the old objections are not relevant to your version.


> 
> regards
> Alex
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/550A42AC.8060104@gmail.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
>