From: frowand.list@gmail.com (Frank Rowand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [patch 2/7] dt: dtb version: document chosen/dtb-info node binding
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:37:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <550B0944.6080203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550A4382.4030209@gmail.com>
On 3/18/2015 8:33 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sonymobile.com>
>
> Add /chosen/dtb-node binding.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sonymobile.com>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt | 37 +++++++++++
>
> Index: b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/chosen.txt
> @@ -46,6 +46,43 @@ on PowerPC "stdout" if "stdout-path" is
> should only use the "stdout-path" property.
>
>
> +dtb-info node
> +----------------
> +
> +Information that describes where the device tree blob (DTB) came from and the
> +environment it was created in.
I left out optional vs required. The next version will state that the dtb-info
node and each separate property within it are optional.
> +
> +This node is normally created by including arch/arm/boot/dts/skeleton.dtsi,
> +which includes include/dt-bindings/version.dtsi.
> +
> +Properties:
> +
> +version
> + The version of the DTB. This is analagous to the linux kernel version.
> +
> + This is a format free field intended for human consumption. User space
> + programs should not have any expections about this property.
> +
> + The DTB number in this property is incremented each time a make that
> + creates one or more DTBs is invoked. If the make creates multiple
> + DTBs then this number is only incremented once.
> +
> + The DTB number is stored in file .version_dtb.
> +
> +version-linux
> + The version of the linux kernel most recently built in the source
> + control system that contains the source used to build the DTB.
> +
> + The linux kernel version number is not incremented for a make that
> + creates a DTB.
> +
> +dtb-path
> + The build directory relative path of the DTB.
> +
> +dts-path
> + The absolute path of the .dts file compiled to create the DTB.
> +
> +
> Properties documented in other bindings
> ---------------------------------------
> #address-cells video/simple-framebuffer-sunxi.txt
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-19 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-19 3:29 [patch 0/7] dt: dtb version: add version info to dtb Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 3:31 ` [patch 1/7] dt: dtb version: consolidate documentation of chosen node bindings Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 13:40 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 3:33 ` [patch 2/7] dt: dtb version: document chosen/dtb-info node binding Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 13:23 ` Rob Herring
2015-03-19 16:42 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 18:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-19 18:53 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 19:01 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 19:32 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-19 20:44 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-20 14:42 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 13:49 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 17:02 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 17:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-03-19 19:12 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 21:27 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-20 15:25 ` Mark Rutland
2015-03-19 17:37 ` Frank Rowand [this message]
2015-03-19 3:34 ` [patch 3/7] dt: dtb version: arm dts Makefile Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 3:36 ` [patch 4/7] dt: dtb version: kernel Makefile Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 3:38 ` [patch 5/7] dt: dtb version: kbuild scripts Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 3:39 ` [patch 6/7] dt: dtb version: dtsi files Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 18:46 ` Sascha Hauer
2015-03-19 3:41 ` [patch 7/7] dt: dtb version: report dtb info Frank Rowand
2015-03-19 8:12 ` [patch 0/7] dt: dtb version: add version info to dtb Gregory CLEMENT
2015-03-19 17:05 ` Frank Rowand
2015-03-20 13:46 ` Rob Herring
2015-03-20 19:14 ` Uwe Kleine-König
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=550B0944.6080203@gmail.com \
--to=frowand.list@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).