[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-24 20:09:40
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:03 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 02:00 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:quoted
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:24 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:quoted
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:23 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:[...]quoted
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What i suspect we will end up doing it dropping the last patch for the moment and ensuring ARCH_KIRKWOOD still supports all the DT machines. I think that just needs care with arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile. Once we have the last four converted over to DT, you can then do a straight swap, mach-kirkwood for mach-mvebu.That sounds like a good plan, thanks! If we are going to do a straight swap I suppose it might as go for a v5 multiplatform flavour instead of a mvebu specific one.[...] I would love it if we could do that. By the way, we still have the problem that at least one supported orion5x machine (D-Link DNS-323) only has a ~1.5 MB kernel partition. So we would probably have to keep a reduced orion5x config for those machines, alongside the mvebu or multiplatform kernel.Sure. I think at worst we should aim to end up with as many flavour as we have today, in reality I expect we should be able to end up with fewer (even if only -= 1). BTW, someone (I forget who) at Debconf in Cambridge last year floated the idea of putting a stage 2 loader in flash to pull the real kernel from some larger storage. I don't know if that is realistic here, and in any case I don't intend to work on it myself.
I do remember that, and I like it. But in order to rely on this, I think we would need to provide a mostly automatic and safe upgrade path in Debian. Unless someone is prepared to spend the (possibly substantial) effort to do that, we're stuck with that limitation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 811 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20140224/cad41ce6/attachment.sig>