On Mar 11, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday 11 March 2015 08:33:04 Bjorn Andersson wrote:

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But are these values actually used by the boot loader?

As far as I could see in 8974 the dtbTool provided by Qualcomm
extracts the values from the list of dtbs and use them to create the
table-of-content in the QCDT blob. The boot loader then looks in this
TOC to pick the right dtb to use.

I guess if I understand this right, we just need to fix that dtbTool
then to look at the top-level compatible property and/or machine
name instead?

	Arnd

Correct, and it means updating the tool for every board/dts that gets created in the future.

Thus, the feeling was that having the ids kept with the dtb made maintenance far easier.

- k

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