linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 5/5] of: unittest: Statically apply overlays using fdtoverlay

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:27:28 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bill Mills <bill.mills@...aro.org>, anmar.oueja@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 5/5] of: unittest: Statically apply overlays using
 fdtoverlay

On 21-01-21, 17:34, David Gibson wrote:
> No, this is the wrong way around.  The expected operation here is that
> you apply overlay (1) to the base tree, giving you, say, output1.dtb.
> output1.dtb is (effectively) a base tree itself, to which you can then
> apply overlay-(2).

Thanks for the confirmation about this.

> Merging overlays is
> something that could make sense, but fdtoverlay will not do it at
> present.

FWIW, I think it works fine right now even if it not intentional. I
did inspect the output dtb (made by merging two overlays) using
fdtdump and it looked okay. But yeah, I understand that we shouldn't
do it.

-- 
viresh