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

[Elliot Berman]

On 1/23/2024 9:18 AM, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:50:07PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 22/01/2024 11:10, Amrit Anand wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/21/2024 12:40 AM, Trilok Soni wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Wouldn't devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will have concern folks from all the 
>>> architectures?
>>> Please correct me.
>>
>> No.
> 
> The chromium guys should get a CC on future versions of this stuff,
> since they like doing wacky things with compatible strings in their
> bootloader and this problem is one they also face. Doug Anderson and the
> mediatek chromebook folks would be a good start.
> 

Please CC Peter Griffin from Linaro as he helped restart this 
discussion at Plumbers.

Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Also, for the oneplus boards:
Caleb Connolly <caleb.connolly@xxxxxxxxxx>