[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add a fall-back Raspberry Pi tree

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Jan 25 12:55:27 PST 2016


On 01/25/2016 01:39 PM, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> U-Boot falls back to "bcm2835-rpi-other.dtb" for boards of unknown
> identification. Let's do a bare minimum for them so that they at leat
> boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk>
> ---
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile              | 1 +
>   arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm2835-rpi-other.dts | 7 +++++++

This DT shouldn't ever be used, except when a new unidentified board 
appears. In that case, I believe the correct solution is to add support 
for that new board to U-Boot and the kernel, rather than add fall-backs. 
Prior to that being done, a user can always copy whichever DT they want 
into filename bcm2835-rpi-other.dts for temporary testing/development, 
if they have reason to believe their new model is compatible with 
something else. In general, I don't think we have any reason to believe 
that even this new minimal DT is guaranteed to be compatible with any 
possible future hardware, so it seems a little risky to ship this file 
in anticipation.



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