[patch 0/7] dt: dtb version: add version info to dtb

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT)]

Hi,

On 19/03/2015 04:29, Frank Rowand wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Can this be added to the next trees to get some test exposure before submitting
> to Linus?
> 
> There is currently no way to tie a device tree blob (DTB) back to the source
> and environment used to create it.  Add this information, including a DTB
> version number, which is somewhat analogous to the Linux kernel version number.
> 
> The DTB version number is independent of the kernel version number, and is
> incremented for each make of one or more DTBs.
> 
> The DTB information is placed in node /chosen/dtb-info.  The data for this
> node will be automatically generated by the .dtb make system for any .dts
> that includes arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi, either directly or indirectly.
> This means that architectures other than arm will not receive this feature.
> This can be added to other architectures by modifying their skeleton.dtsi.
> 
> There are 70 of the 557 arm .dts files that do not include skeleton.dtsi.
> Thus the .dtb files created for these systems will not have the
> /chosen/dtb-info node:

About the following list some of them use skeleton64.dtsi instead of
skeleton.dtsi. All the armada-xp-*.dts uses it and also axm5516-amarillo.dts
(through axm55xx.dtsi), the ls1021a-*.dts, the mt8127-moose.dts, the
mt8135-evbp1.dts and the sun9i-a80-optimus.dts.

So maybe it would worth updating skeleton64.dtsi.

For the other ones it seems that actually they use skeleton.dtsi but not
through a dtsi file.

Thanks,

Gregory


> 
>    armada-xp-axpwifiap.dts
>    armada-xp-db.dts
>    armada-xp-gp.dts
>    armada-xp-lenovo-ix4-300d.dts
>    armada-xp-matrix.dts
>    armada-xp-netgear-rn2120.dts
>    armada-xp-openblocks-ax3-4.dts
>    armada-xp-synology-ds414.dts
>    atlas6-evb.dts
>    atlas7-evb.dts
>    axm5516-amarillo.dts
>    bcm2835-rpi-b-plus.dts
>    bcm2835-rpi-b.dts
>    ea3250.dts
>    ecx-2000.dts
>    highbank.dts
>    hip04-d01.dts
>    integratorap.dts
>    integratorcp.dts
>    ls1021a-qds.dts
>    ls1021a-twr.dts
>    meson6-atv1200.dts
>    moxart-uc7112lx.dts
>    mt8127-moose.dts
>    mt8135-evbp1.dts
>    nspire-clp.dts
>    nspire-cx.dts
>    nspire-tp.dts
>    phy3250.dts
>    picoxcell-pc7302-pc3x2.dts
>    picoxcell-pc7302-pc3x3.dts
>    prima2-evb.dts
>    r7s72100-genmai.dts
>    r8a73a4-ape6evm-reference.dts
>    r8a73a4-ape6evm.dts
>    r8a7790-lager.dts
>    r8a7791-henninger.dts
>    r8a7791-koelsch.dts
>    r8a7794-alt.dts
>    spear1310-evb.dts
>    spear1340-evb.dts
>    spear300-evb.dts
>    spear310-evb.dts
>    spear320-evb.dts
>    spear320-hmi.dts
>    spear600-evb.dts
>    stih407-b2120.dts
>    stih410-b2120.dts
>    stih415-b2000.dts
>    stih415-b2020.dts
>    stih416-b2000.dts
>    stih416-b2020.dts
>    stih416-b2020e.dts
>    stih418-b2199.dts
>    sun9i-a80-optimus.dts
>    vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts
>    vexpress-v2p-ca15_a7.dts
>    vexpress-v2p-ca5s.dts
>    vexpress-v2p-ca9.dts
>    vt8500-bv07.dts
>    wm8505-ref.dts
>    wm8650-mid.dts
>    wm8750-apc8750.dts
>    wm8850-w70v2.dts
>    xenvm-4.2.dts
>    zynq-parallella.dts
>    zynq-zc702.dts
>    zynq-zc706.dts
>    zynq-zed.dts
>    zynq-zybo.dts
> 
> 
> 
> An example of the DTB information reported is:
> 
>   $ echo ; cat /proc/version; echo ; echo ; dmesg | grep DTB
> 
>   Linux version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank at buildhost) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #5 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 20:04:48 PDT 2015
> 
> 
>   DTB version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank at buildhost) (DTC 1.4.0-dirty) #4 Wed Mar 18 20:04:11 PDT 2015
>   DTB linux version 4.0.0-rc4-dirty (frank at build_host) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 20:02:46 PDT 2015
>   DTB source /local/nobackup/src/git_linus/linux--4.0/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-apq8074-dragonboard.dts
>   DTB blob arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-apq8074-dragonboard.dtb
> 
> 
> The values of the /chosen/dtb-info/ properties are also available in
> /proc/device-tree/chosen/dtb-info/
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