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Subject: Re: Removal of qcom,board-id and qcom,msm-id
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To:     Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@somainline.org>,
        krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
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From:   Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
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On 22/05/2022 22:51, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> removing these properties will not bring almost any benefit (other than making
> some checks happy any saving some <200 LoC) and will make the lives of almost
> all people doing independent development for linux-on-msm harder. There are
> almost unironically like 3 people outside Linaro and QUIC who have
> non-vendor-fused development boards AND the sources to rebuild the
> bootloader on their own. Making it harder to boot is only going to
> discourage people from developing on these devices, which is already not
> that pleasant, especially with newer platforms where you have to fight with
> the oh-so-bright ideas of Android boot chain..
> 
> This only concerns devices released before sm8350, as the new ones will not
> even boot with these properties present (or at least SONY Sagami, but I
> doubt it's an isolated case), so other than completing support for older
> devices, it won't be an issue going forward, anyway.

I almost missed this part of the discussion (and Krzysztof had to point 
me to it in discussion of his patches).

I think this is a Sony peculiarity. At least the distributed SM8350 
(lahaina) and SM8450 (waipio) Qualcomm device trees use these properties:

https://github.com/MiCode/kernel_devicetree/blob/zeus-s-oss/qcom/lahaina-hdk.dts
https://github.com/MiCode/kernel_devicetree/blob/zeus-s-oss/qcom/lahaina-v2.1.dtsi
https://github.com/MiCode/kernel_devicetree/blob/zeus-s-oss/qcom/waipio-qrd-pm8010.dts
https://github.com/MiCode/kernel_devicetree/blob/zeus-s-oss/qcom/waipio-v2.dtsi


-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry