Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Check flat device tree version at boot
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2014-08-29 01:55:57
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2014-08-29 01:55:57
On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 09:27 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
In commit e6a6928c3ea1 "of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt", the kernel stopped supporting old flat device tree formats. The minimum supported version is now 0x10.Ugg. Is that something which needs to be supported? Supporting it at this point would mean adding support to libfdt.
Well it would have been nice to keep supporting v2, dropping it broke kexec-tools for example. But it's done now, so we'll just deal with the fallout. If you can CC linuxppc-dev in future on patches that fundamentally change the device tree parsing that would be appreciated :) cheers