Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

From: Trilok Soni
Date: Sat Jan 20 2024 - 14:11:03 EST


On 1/20/2024 3:20 AM, Amrit Anand wrote:
> From: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Device manufacturers frequently ship multiple boards or SKUs under a
> single software package. These software packages will ship multiple
> devicetree blobs and require some mechanism to pick the correct DTB for
> the board the software package was deployed. Introduce a common
> definition for adding board identifiers to device trees. board-id
> provides a mechanism for bootloaders to select the appropriate DTB which
> is vendor/OEM-agnostic.

Please extend CC list to more architectures? linux-arm-kernel, risc-v etc; since
the proposal below is not specific to ARM but any architecture is using the
devicetree.

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---Trilok Soni