From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: change FDT compatible prefix to mrvl
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080329000047.GA31116@farnsworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40803281647y4ccc4605n1507f9c1868d4c0f@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:47:25PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> wrote:
> > From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
> >
> > Follow the convention that compatible names are prefixed by the
> > vendor's stock ticker symbol. For Marvell Technology Group Ltd.,
> > that's MRVL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
> > Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
>
> Are there any boards "in the wild" using the old string? If so are
> does changing this string risk complicating upgrades to a new kernel
> version?
I don't think this complicates things much, since all these boards boot
a dtbImage, with an embedded dtb file built from the kernel source.
So the dts and code don't have much opportunity to get out of sync.
-Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-29 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 23:39 [PATCH 0/9] powerpc: mv64x60 and prpmc2800 DTS cleanups Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:42 ` [PATCH 1/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: change FDT compatible prefix to mrvl Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:47 ` Grant Likely
2008-03-29 0:00 ` Dale Farnsworth [this message]
2008-03-29 0:12 ` Grant Likely
2008-03-30 23:44 ` David Gibson
2008-03-31 16:56 ` Dale Farnsworth
2008-04-01 1:53 ` David Gibson
2008-03-28 23:44 ` [PATCH 2/9] [POWERPC] prpmc2800: convert DTS to v1 and add labels Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:45 ` [PATCH 3/9] [POWERPC] prpmc2800: fix frequencies in prpmc2800.dts Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:47 ` [PATCH 4/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: Fix FDT compatible names: mv64x60 => mv64360 Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-29 21:57 ` Olof Johansson
2008-03-30 19:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-31 16:33 ` Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:48 ` [PATCH 5/9] [POWERPC] mv64x60: remove device tree absolute path references Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] [POWERPC] prpmc2800: clean up dts properties Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-29 21:59 ` Olof Johansson
2008-03-30 10:11 ` David Gibson
2008-03-31 16:43 ` Dale Farnsworth
2008-04-01 1:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-04-01 2:22 ` David Gibson
2008-03-28 23:50 ` [PATCH 7/9] [POWERPC] mv643xx_eth: prepare to support multiple silicon blocks Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:51 ` [PATCH 8/9] [POWERPC] Document the mv64x60 device tree bindings Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] [POWERPC] prpmc2800 needs a dtbImage Dale Farnsworth
2008-03-28 23:56 ` Grant Likely
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