[PATCH 01/10] arm/tegra: initial device tree for tegra30

[Rob Herring]

On 11/18/2011 12:49 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:39:14AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> Peter De Schrijver wrote at Thursday, November 17, 2011 9:19 AM:
>>> This patch adds the initial device tree for tegra30
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/tegra.txt
>> ...
>>> +* harmony: tegra20 based development board
>>> +Required root node properties:
>>> + - compatible = "nvidia,harmony", "nvidia,tegra20";
>>> +
>>> +* seaboard: tegra20 based clamshell reference design
>>> +Required root node properties:
>>> + - compatible = "nvidia,seaboard", "nvidia,tegra20";
>>
>> Do we really want to list all the board names here? In the future, there
>> could be tens or hundreds. I would argue that we should just document
>> nvidia,tegra20 and nvidia,tegra30.
> 
> Agreed.

It's not really any different than mach-types which does have every
board in it.

I think if a board requires a new dts, then it needs a unique name.

> 
>> At a later point, we should fix board-dt.c to solely look for those
>> compatible values, although this will have to wait until the pinmux DT
>> bindings are present. Then, the kernel won't care about the board names.
> 
> Exactly.

That is perfectly acceptable, but you should still have the option to do
something specific for any given board.

Rob