On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Timur Tabi timur@freescale.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Grant Likely grant.likely@secretlab.ca wrote:
The lack of shared soc data in device trees is indeed a problem that has been on my radar for a while now. Fortunately I do have a solution[1] which is partially implemented plus a contractual obligation to deliver it to a client in the near future. I fully expect this will become a non-issue between now and about mid November.
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[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org/msg00680.htm...
I haven't read through all of it, but it looks like your solution affects only DTS files. I think Mark's concern is mostly with DTB files, because we still need to have a unique DTB for every possible board variation.
Am I reading that correctly?
You are; but the lack of dts factorization must be solved first before looking at whether or not .dtb overlays make sense. Otherwise we don't have a source for the factorized data. I personally don't think .dtb overlays are needed, but I'm not closed to the idea either.
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