Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 16:21:16 EST


On Wednesday 11 March 2015 08:33:04 Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>
> But are these values actually used by the boot loader?
>
> As far as I could see in 8974 the dtbTool provided by Qualcomm
> extracts the values from the list of dtbs and use them to create the
> table-of-content in the QCDT blob. The boot loader then looks in this
> TOC to pick the right dtb to use.
>

I guess if I understand this right, we just need to fix that dtbTool
then to look at the top-level compatible property and/or machine
name instead?

Arnd


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