[PATCH V3 1/5] ARM: add infra-structure for BCM2708/BCM2835 and Raspberry Pi

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu Sep 13 22:16:34 EDT 2012


On 09/13/2012 01:51 PM, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:18:25PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Simon Arlott <simon at fire.lp0.eu>
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm2708.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm2708.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..49eec61
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/bcm2708.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
>> +Broadcom BCM2708 device tree bindings
>> +-------------------------------------------
>> +
>> +Boards with the BCM2708 SoC, or another SoC in the BCM2708 family, shall have
>> +the following properties:
>> +
>> +Required root node property:
>> +
>> +compatible = "broadcom,bcm2708";
>> +
>> +Boards with BCM2835 SoC shall *additionally* have the following properties:
>> +
>> +Required root node property:
>> +
>> +compatible = "broadcom,bcm2835";
> 
> Please update also the vendor prefixes index at
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/vendor-prefixes.txt.

Oops, yes, I forgot that.

> BTW is it possible to change it to "bcm"?

I believe standard practice is to use the stock ticker symbol if not
using the full company name, so that'd be "brcm". Does anyone have an
objection? I'll assume not and make the change...



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