Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/9] dt-bindings: hwinfo: Introduce board-id

[Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:00:54AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 11:17, Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 07:17:35AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Elliot,
> > >
> > > I am just picking up the discussion here, which was started on another thread.
> > >
> > > I can't see why this new feature is needed. We should be able to use
> > > compatible strings, as we do now. I added a 'usage' section to the FIT
> > > spec [1] which might help. I also incorporated the board revision and
> > > variant information and some notes on how to add to the available
> > > suffixes.
> > >
> > > Does that handle your use case?
> >
> > -rev and -sku don't fit the versioning scheme for QTI devices, so this
> > isn't a generic enough approach. Patch 5 in this series describes the
> > versioning scheme for us.
> >
> > In the other thread, we had talked about using some regex based approach
> > for matching the root node compatible. I haven't had chance to work on
> > that proposal and will try to get to it in the next couple weeks.
> 
> OK, I look forward to it. Please do check the FIT best match approach
> and see how it might be extended to handle your requirements. So far I
> have not seen a need for regexes, but it is certainly a possibility.
> 

I spent some time collecting feedback from the team on using compatible
strings + regex-style approach and we're not able to add a regex library
into firmware, so this approach unfortunately won't work for us.
Because we have more axes of board identification than chromebook, using
FIT's compatible strings isn't a scalable solution for us. I don't think
we have incompatible problems, we only have more than 2-3 axes of
information.

Thanks,
Elliot