Hi Alistair,
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:22:54PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
From what I can tell it seems that kernels without this patch will try and use this memory even if it is marked in the device-tree as status="disabled" which could lead to problems for older kernels when we start exporting this property from firmware.
Arguably this might not be such a problem in practice as we probably don't have many (if any) existing kernels that will boot on hardware exporting these properties.
Yes, I think you've got it right.
However given this patch seems fairly independent perhaps it is worth sending as a separate fix if it is not going to make it into this release?
Michael,
If this set as a whole is going to miss the release, would it be helpful for me to resend 1/5 and 2/5 as a separate set? They are the minimum needed to prevent the possible forward compatibility issue Alistair describes.
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Reza Arbab