Re: [PATCH, RFC 8/8] ARM: dts: am43-pre-silicon support

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Tuesday 19 February 2013 04:22 PM, Mohammed, Afzal wrote:
> Hi Santosh,
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 16:05:22, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> > On Monday 18 February 2013 05:08 PM, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
>
> > > AM43 SoC is in pre-silicon stage, meanwhile it has been modelled in
> > > a pre-silicon platform. To validate and boot Linux in pre-silicon
> > > platform that emulates an AM43 SoC, add DT build support.
>
> > > Note: This would be replaced by an original board support.
>
> > > -	am335x-bone.dtb
> > > +	am335x-bone.dtb \
> > > +	am43-pre-silicon.dtb
>
> > Well the pre-silicon platform and the SOC are very
> > close and at least the support you are adding here is
> > exactly same. So lets just use am437x.dtb or something
> > like that.
>
> SoC support is already added in patch 7/8. This is board (which doesn't
> exist now) support, hence a pre-silicon temporary one to validate it.
I mean we can call it am437x-xyxboard.dtb already considering the data
here can be re-used. Boot-args can be used from default kernel config
with CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE.

No strong opinion if you still insist to have a pre-silicon dtb.

Regards,
Santosh

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