[PATCH v2 1/3] devicetree: bindings: Document qcom, msm-id and qcom, board-id

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 15:13:20 Kumar Gala wrote:
>> The top level qcom,msm-id and qcom,board-id are utilized by bootloaders
>> on Qualcomm MSM platforms to determine which device tree should be
>> utilized and passed to the kernel.
>> 
>> Cc: <devicetree at vger.kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at codeaurora.org>
> 
> This seems to duplicate the root-node compatible strings for no particular
> reason, with a less flexible format. I think it would be better to fix
> the boot loader.

While I wish that was an option, this is a solution that has been shipping on MSM platforms and phones for some time.

- k

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