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From: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Devicetree Compiler <devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 18:17:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120181708.GN3697@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqKTsX9efYDMjGahFDxj0cEfzozeNrY1Nq1bECzgOZGqdQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 08:43:23AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 6:26 AM David Gibson
><david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

...

>> What might be better would be to have a dtc option which force appends
>> an extra .dts to the mail .dts compiled.  You can then put an overlay
>> template in that file, something like:
>>
>> &{/} {
>>         linux,build-info = /incbin/ "build-info.txt;
>> }
>
>I like this suggestion either as an include another dts file or an
>overlay. The latter could be useful as a way to maintain current dtb
>files while splitting the source files into base and overlay dts
>files.

ACK, that sounds like it could be helpful.

>But no, let's not prepend this with 'linux'. It's not a property
>specific for Linux to consume.

Right. We might be seeing the data coming through from U-Boot (or any
other random bootloader) too.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-13 18:16 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add device tree build information Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-13 18:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-16  0:57   ` David Gibson
2020-01-16  8:58     ` Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-17  9:09       ` David Gibson
2020-01-17 14:43         ` Rob Herring
2020-01-17 15:11           ` Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-19  6:40             ` David Gibson
2020-01-19  6:39           ` David Gibson
2020-01-21 15:59             ` Rob Herring
2020-01-21 17:18               ` Steve McIntyre
2020-01-23  5:13               ` David Gibson
2020-01-23 14:05                 ` Rob Herring
2020-01-20 18:17           ` Steve McIntyre [this message]
2020-01-22 18:00             ` Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-22 19:54               ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-13 18:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] of: fdt: print dtb build information Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-13 18:16 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] scripts: Use -B dtc option to generate " Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-17 19:20   ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-22 19:54     ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-20 16:16   ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-15 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Add device tree " Steve McIntyre
2020-01-16  2:28 ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-16  8:19   ` Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-17 19:13     ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-20 10:56       ` Alexandre Torgue
2020-01-20 16:14         ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-20 18:28           ` Steve McIntyre
2020-01-21  3:20             ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-21  3:39               ` Frank Rowand
2020-01-21 17:10               ` Steve McIntyre

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