Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute

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Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute
Date	Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:00:01 +0100
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On 02/15/2016 08:40 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:21:33PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> flash-kernel has a database /usr/share/flash-kernel/db/all.db with
>> entries like:
>>
>> Machine: LeMaker Banana Pi
>> Kernel-Flavors: armmp armmp-lpae
>> Boot-Script-Path: /boot/boot.scr
>> DTB-Id: sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb
>> U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.sunxi
>> Required-Packages: u-boot-tools
>>
>> Machine refers to the value of /proc/device-tree/model.
>> DTB-Id is the dtb to be installed.
>>
>> So what flash-kernel does is:
>> - look up value of /proc/device-tree/model
>> - retrieve correlated dtb file name from database
>> - install dtb with this name
>> - create symbolic links for the dtb
>>
>> If multiple boards use the the same dtb that is fine with flash-kernel
>> as long as the value of model is unique per dtb.
> 
> OCTEON does not work like this. The file you are modifying
> (octeon_3xxx.dts) is compiled into the kernel, and there is no external
> DTB file. So the model string will be always the same regardless on
> which board you have booted the kernel.
> 
> A.
>
Hello Aaro,

you are right DTBs are built in for MIPS systems.

Still it would be useful to be able to use the same property 'model' to
determine which u-boot script (boot.scr) to install.

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

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[PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 06:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-02-15 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-02-15 12:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-02-15 19:20 +0100
        [PATCH 1/1 v2] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 19:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 01:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> - 2016-02-15 19:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 20:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> - 2016-02-15 20:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> - 2016-02-15 21:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: DTS: cavium-octeon: provide model attribute Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> - 2016-02-15 21:00 +0100

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