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From: trini@ti•com (Tom Rini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Unifying cape overlays into boot .dtb for BeagleBoard.org boards
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:58:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A05790.7090803@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140617125640.GC3705@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On 06/17/2014 08:56 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 08:37:09AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 06/17/2014 05:09 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> A good way that this could have been done is to put an I2C EEPROM on
>>> each cape, and have that store the DT fragment.  The boot loader could
>>> have then read that from each cape, and used that information to build
>>> up the final DT.  Why this hasn't been thought of, considering that the
>>> kernel has been moving towards DT for years, is quite unbelievable.
>>
>> I had actually talked about this a long while back (face to face) with
>> people, but the problem was (and still kind of is) the bindings
>> changing, etc.
> 
> And that's a strong argument for having stable bindings - or at the
> very least, ensuring that new bindings which are compatible with older
> versions.

Yes.  This was a few years back (a bit before the first beaglebone was
public) so before we had really pushed up on some level of binding
stability.

-- 
Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-06-11  5:11 ` Unifying cape overlays into boot .dtb for BeagleBoard.org boards Jason Kridner
2014-06-17  7:11   ` Gupta, Pekon
2014-06-17 16:25     ` Jason Kridner
2014-06-18  8:51       ` Gupta, Pekon
2014-06-26  7:50         ` Tony Lindgren
2014-06-26 13:06           ` Tom Rini
2014-06-26 15:27             ` Jason Kridner
2014-06-16 13:22 ` Jason Kridner
2014-06-17  9:09   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 12:37     ` Tom Rini
2014-06-17 12:56       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 14:58         ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-06-17 12:58     ` Matt Porter
2014-06-17 13:15       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 13:30         ` Matt Porter
2014-06-17 13:32         ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-06-17 16:01           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 16:33             ` Jason Kridner
2014-06-17 16:59             ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-06-17 17:05               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 17:10                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-06-17 17:41                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-17 19:24                     ` Pantelis Antoniou
2014-06-17 13:45     ` Vladimir Pantelic
2014-06-17 13:50     ` Grant Likely
2014-06-17 14:08     ` Iain Paton

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