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Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific compatible flags

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On 09/25/2015 11:15 AM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
> 9/25/2015 9:01 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> On 09/25/2015 10:18 AM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
>>> On 9/25/2015 7:50 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> But, how about userspace
>>>> needing to know which SoC they are on, without needing to depend on
>>>> board->soc mapping? How do we help resolve that?
>>>>
>>> Why the user space should care about exact SOC ?
>>
>> examples vary - trivial one is: debug tools like omapconf[1] or testing
>> tools like opentest[2] need some standard way to ensure Linux kernel is
>> functional - trusting the least set of parameters is usually what we
>> would prefer. while building a generic distro such as debian or yocto,
>> one prefers NOT to need to do a package build per SoC/perboard - that
>> never scales. instead, you'd like the same application run on different
>> systems dynamically.
>>
> I guessed omapconf example is coming though Keystone has no such tool

:) That is true - as of now. maynot be the case for future.

> yet ;-). Opentest shouldn't need that info either.

we did debate this on opentest, but we could not implement anything
since we did not have a consistent solution yet.

> I do agree that having a soc along with board is useful in
> longer run to accommodation more boards and variants.
> And only on that merit, I am willing to take these patches.
> 
> Please refresh the series commit messages based on the
> discussion so far and repost. Will pick it up then.
> 
Thanks. I will do so (probably early next week)..


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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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[PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-09-22 18:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> - 2015-09-23 20:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-09-23 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2015-09-23 20:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> - 2015-09-24 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-09-24 16:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> - 2015-09-24 18:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-09-25 17:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2015-09-25 17:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-09-25 18:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2015-09-25 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <menon.nishanth@gmail.com> - 2015-09-25 19:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2015-10-02 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2015-10-04 01:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags "santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2015-10-04 02:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: keystone: provide SoC specific  compatible flags Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com> - 2015-09-30 16:40 +0200

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