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Message-ID: <CAA8EJppYmVMmhgLSiSEGA_r4hFbQYriOLjNK9b6VXUYEYiZ6Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 22:00:00 +0300
From: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
To: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, 
	Amrit Anand <quic_amrianan@...cinc.com>, Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@...aro.org>, 
	Caleb Connolly <caleb.connolly@...aro.org>, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>, 
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>, Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>, 
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>, Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>, 
	"Humphreys, Jonathan" <j-humphreys@...com>, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@...aro.org>, 
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.org>, Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>, 
	boot-architecture@...ts.linaro.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, 
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/9] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

Hi Elliot,

On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 21:41, Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com> wrote:
>
> Device manufacturers frequently ship multiple boards or SKUs under a
> single software package. These software packages will ship multiple
> devicetree blobs and require some mechanism to pick the correct DTB for
> the board the software package was deployed. Introduce a common
> definition for adding board identifiers to device trees. board-id
> provides a mechanism for bootloaders to select the appropriate DTB which
> is vendor/OEM-agnostic.

This is a v3 of the RFC, however it is still a qcom-only series. Might
I suggest gaining an actual interest from any other hardware vendor
(in the form of the patches) before posting v4? Otherwise it might
still end up being a Qualcomm solution which is not supported and/or
used by other hardware vendors.

>
> This series is based off a talk I gave at EOSS NA 2024 [1]. There is
> some further discussion about how to do devicetree selection in the
> boot-architecture mailing list [2].
>
> [1]: https://sched.co/1aBFy
> [2]: https://lists.linaro.org/archives/list/boot-architecture@lists.linaro.org/thread/DZCZSOCRH5BN7YOXEL2OQKSDIY7DCW2M/
>

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

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