* DT best practices for defining multiple closely-related boards
@ 2017-10-28 9:19 Robert P. J. Day
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From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2017-10-28 9:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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much shorter followup to previous note -- if we extend all that to
defining, say, two very closely-related boards, the acme "coyote1" and
"coyote2", then all i should end up needing (at most) is two new .dts
files:
coyote1.dts
coyote2.dts
both of which could include (among other things) common coyote content
in:
coyote.dtsi
and that's it. unless there's something really novel about these
boards, all other content should come from kernel-supplied .dtsi
files, yes? and, once again, i'm asking since the design i was handed
again copies kernel-supplied .dtsi files and modifies them, apparently
for no other reason than to remove properties, which should have been
done with /delete-property/.
rday
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* Re: DT best practices for defining multiple closely-related boards
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@ 2017-11-01 21:24 ` Rob Herring
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From: Rob Herring @ 2017-11-01 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Robert P. J. Day; +Cc: Device Tree Mailing List
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 05:19:23AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> much shorter followup to previous note -- if we extend all that to
> defining, say, two very closely-related boards, the acme "coyote1" and
> "coyote2", then all i should end up needing (at most) is two new .dts
> files:
>
> coyote1.dts
> coyote2.dts
Another option is if your bootloader can distinguish between boards, you
fixup the dtb at runtime. Depends if managing mulitple dtbs and firmware
images is a pain or not.
>
> both of which could include (among other things) common coyote content
> in:
>
> coyote.dtsi
>
> and that's it. unless there's something really novel about these
> boards, all other content should come from kernel-supplied .dtsi
> files, yes? and, once again, i'm asking since the design i was handed
> again copies kernel-supplied .dtsi files and modifies them, apparently
> for no other reason than to remove properties, which should have been
> done with /delete-property/.
Seems so, but people just copy things for a variety of reasons (laziness
primarily).
Rob
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