From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:31:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT In-Reply-To: <20120925121439.49c5d0dd@skate> References: <1348531338-16624-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1348531338-16624-6-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20120925053542.GK14266@lunn.ch> <5061754E.9050204@gmail.com> <20120925111826.6f4086ee@skate> <20120925094610.GF27099@lunn.ch> <20120925121439.49c5d0dd@skate> Message-ID: <20120925103141.GG27099@lunn.ch> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:14:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Andrew Lunn, > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:10 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > I principle, i agree. However, i'm not too sure about mach-orion5x & > > mach-mv78xx0. orion5x has probably been broken since -rc1 was released > > and nobody noticed. In the same time, we got around 5 people > > independently reporting kirkwood was broken. We have not received any > > new boards for orion5x in the time i've been looking at Orion > > platforms. mv78xx0 only has one board which is not a Marvell reference > > design. So im tempted to not spend any effort moving orion5x or > > mv78xx0 to DT unless these actually hinder the effort of moving the > > others to DT. What may make sense is to flatten mv78xx0 and orion5x > > into plat-orion and then just watch the bit-rot happen. > > I'll try to see if I can get people from LaCie to test mach-orion5x as > I have a few contacts there, and I'll contact Marvell to see if they can > still provide Orion-based platforms. Marvell supplied my one one reference platform. So i can do some testing that the basic infrastructure works. But the problem with converting to DT is that there is a lot of brainless monkey work needed per supported board, and its very easy to make a typo. So each board converted to DT needs testing. I don't know if we can find testers for all the boards. But should we throw out working boards just because we cannot find somebody to test the DT version? Andrew From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754760Ab2IYKb4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:31:56 -0400 Received: from londo.lunn.ch ([80.238.139.98]:44725 "EHLO londo.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753499Ab2IYKbz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:31:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:31:41 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Andrew Lunn , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Russell King , Jason Cooper , Olof Johansson , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Clement Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT Message-ID: <20120925103141.GG27099@lunn.ch> References: <1348531338-16624-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1348531338-16624-6-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <20120925053542.GK14266@lunn.ch> <5061754E.9050204@gmail.com> <20120925111826.6f4086ee@skate> <20120925094610.GF27099@lunn.ch> <20120925121439.49c5d0dd@skate> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120925121439.49c5d0dd@skate> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:14:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Andrew Lunn, > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:10 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > I principle, i agree. However, i'm not too sure about mach-orion5x & > > mach-mv78xx0. orion5x has probably been broken since -rc1 was released > > and nobody noticed. In the same time, we got around 5 people > > independently reporting kirkwood was broken. We have not received any > > new boards for orion5x in the time i've been looking at Orion > > platforms. mv78xx0 only has one board which is not a Marvell reference > > design. So im tempted to not spend any effort moving orion5x or > > mv78xx0 to DT unless these actually hinder the effort of moving the > > others to DT. What may make sense is to flatten mv78xx0 and orion5x > > into plat-orion and then just watch the bit-rot happen. > > I'll try to see if I can get people from LaCie to test mach-orion5x as > I have a few contacts there, and I'll contact Marvell to see if they can > still provide Orion-based platforms. Marvell supplied my one one reference platform. So i can do some testing that the basic infrastructure works. But the problem with converting to DT is that there is a lot of brainless monkey work needed per supported board, and its very easy to make a typo. So each board converted to DT needs testing. I don't know if we can find testers for all the boards. But should we throw out working boards just because we cannot find somebody to test the DT version? Andrew