On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:31:13AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Karsten Merker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 01:06:54AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote: > >> From: Jagan Teki <[email protected]> > >> > >> from BPI(BIPAI KEJI LIMITED) products the Bananapi board > >> is named as 'Bananapi M1' and this is the starting > >> bananapi board from M1 series. > >> > >> So rename the board defconfig, dts and suffix 'M1' on > >> model for the same so-that next sequence on bananapi starts > >> like M1 Plus, M2 and so.on > > > > Hello, > > > > the equivalent change in the kernel has been NACKed by me as with > > the proposed change the installation of a newer kernel would > > break a large number of existing end user systems (which rely on > > the old dts file name and on the old model string). > > > > U-Boot should keep the same dts as the kernel, so this > > effectively means a NACK to this change for u-boot as well. > > Do the distros also keep a list of defconfig targets to build > for U-boot? It seems that way for Debian. I imagine just > changing the defconfig names would be troublesome for the > maintainers.
Not only the distros, but all the buildsystems too. This is really something we shouldn't change, ever. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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