From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:48:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maintainership update for the Marvell Orion family of SOCs In-Reply-To: <201204302217.35958.arnd@arndb.de> References: <201204302124.28892.arnd@arndb.de> <87mx5sanuf.fsf@lebrac.rtp-net.org> <201204302217.35958.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20120501084829.GF15541@lunn.ch> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > Well, there is no reason to rush this at all, it could live in parallel > for a couple of years. But at one point we can decide that if nobody has > bothered to write the .dts file for one board and tested it that nobody > cares about that board any more and it can just get removed and possibly > added back in dts form when someone does complain. Probably a FAQ, but maybe somebody can point me in the right direction. How will Debian, Ubuntu, etc, deal with old machines who's u-boot does not support DT, yet the kernel has moved on and only has DT support for a board? Will the kernel install process need to determine what board the machine is and append the DT to the end of the kernel? Or do we envisage a process where all DT are appended to the kernel, and the machine ID, as passed by the old uboot, is used to pick the correct DT? Thanks Andrew