Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] dt-bindings: riscv: microchip: document the aries m100pfsevp

From: Conor.Dooley
Date: Tue Aug 30 2022 - 13:47:23 EST


On 30/08/2022 18:30, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
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> On 30/08/2022 19:59, Conor.Dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> w dts were
>>>> needed so that the gpio-hog could be set correctly. Out of curiosity, I can
>>>> have the same compatible in multiple devicetrees right? In that case, it
>>>> would just be "aries,m100pfsevp" here and I could put that in both?
>>>> Would make things easier..
>>>
>>> Depends, but I would say for this case rather not. The compatible should
>>> identify the board. If the boards are different, one compatible should
>>> not identify both of them. Imagine U-Boot (or something else) trying to
>>> match the DTS.
>>
>> It is the same board though, the way the bootloader works is that if it
>> detects an SD-card it will use that to boot from, and if not will fall back
>> to the emmc.
>
> Wait, I might miss that part. So this is exactly the same hardware with
> the same SoM/SoC, same eMMC and SD card, except that one has plugged
> this SD card (as it is hot-pluggable)?

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