Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] hw/arm/virt: provide a model property in the fdt

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 October 2018 at 04:50, Heinrich Schuchardt <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to the "Devicetree Specification, Release v0.2" 'model' is a
> required property of the root node.
>
> Some software like the Debian flash-kernel package rely on this property
> to identify boards.
>
> The patch sets the model property to 'qemu,virt'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2
>         use the recommended format of the model property
> ---
>  hw/arm/virt.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
> index 281ddcdf6e..abe366895a 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
> @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ static void create_fdt(VirtMachineState *vms)
>      vms->fdt = fdt;
>
>      /* Header */
> +    qemu_fdt_setprop_string(fdt, "/", "model", "qemu,virt");
>      qemu_fdt_setprop_string(fdt, "/", "compatible", "linux,dummy-virt");
>      qemu_fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, "/", "#address-cells", 0x2);
>      qemu_fdt_setprop_cell(fdt, "/", "#size-cells", 0x2);

The spec says "a string that uniquely identifies the model of the system
board". So should we be using "virt" for everything, or should we use
"virt-2.10", "virt-2.11", "virt-2.12", etc ?

thanks
-- PMM