linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/9] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 17:51:00 +0200
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
 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>,
 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

On 21.05.2024 9:00 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> 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.

AMD should be onboard [1].

Konrad

[1] https://resources.linaro.org/en/resource/q7U3Rr7m3ZbZmXzYK7A9u3