On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:13 AM, David Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> It is not pointless. Never it was in the cards to convert old platforms >> first. The most problematic platforms responsible for the high volume >> of changes that has gone in mainline lately are the modern ones, not PXA >> based ones. So DT is going to be most effective for the new stuff to >> come. And realistically that's where we might get developers attention, >> not with those platforms being end-of-lived by their manufacturers. > > New stuff doesn't necessarily mean new boot loaders. I don't have a lot > of control over the bootloaders on MSM. We can probably move away from > ATAGS, but only after every kernel that could possibly boot on that > target will work with DT. I don't see that happening for at least a > year.
Having now inspected the situation with Ux500 I can second that this goes for the Ux500 series as well. The U8500 firstcomer in this series and probably U5500 also is relying on a 2009-based fork of U-boot. The U-boot for these platforms just won't be converted to do DT. In short we also need the ATAGs-overrides-DT-nodes approach for a clean migration path. Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
