[PATCH 3/3] arm: dts: Add gta04a5 model

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at dowhile0.org
Tue Jul 29 07:12:03 PDT 2014


Hello,

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
<hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>> So what's the conclusion? Are changes needed to this patch
>> series or not?
>
> I advocate that no changes are needed.
>

I agree with Dr. H. Nikolaus on this regard. A DeviceTree should be a
description of the hardware and if two hardware platforms differs,
then we need two different DTS.

Lately I'm seeing some attempts to abuse u-boot's fdt command, u-boot
should only modify the strictly necessary like the /chosen branch.
Allowing u-boot to mangle the FDT before passing to the kernel just to
avoid some DT duplication doesn't sound like a good idea IMHO.

> BR,
> Nikolaus
>
> --

Best regards,
Javier



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