From: ne@erfurth.eu (Nico Erfurth)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9CEE24.1080501@erfurth.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302122121-3652-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de>
Alexander Holler wrote:
> The first patch merges the setup for Seagate DockStars into the setup
> for Marvell SheevaPlugs and the second one removes the machine type for
> DockStars at all.
That looks fine so far.
> Removing the machine type for DockStar shouldn't be a big problem. Support
> for them is already broken in mainline U-Boot since 2 versions, so changing the
> stuff there is already needed and it shouldn't be a problem to use the same
> machine type as used for SheevaPlugs there.
This sounds like very bad reasoning to me. The Dockstar has a machine-id
assigned, if the bootloader is broken, people should either use a
working version, or fix the current one.
Also, using the memory-size to differ between these two machines sounds
like something thats doomed to fail in the future.
Nico
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From: Nico Erfurth <ne@erfurth.eu>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9CEE24.1080501@erfurth.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302122121-3652-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de>
Alexander Holler wrote:
> The first patch merges the setup for Seagate DockStars into the setup
> for Marvell SheevaPlugs and the second one removes the machine type for
> DockStars at all.
That looks fine so far.
> Removing the machine type for DockStar shouldn't be a big problem. Support
> for them is already broken in mainline U-Boot since 2 versions, so changing the
> stuff there is already needed and it shouldn't be a problem to use the same
> machine type as used for SheevaPlugs there.
This sounds like very bad reasoning to me. The Dockstar has a machine-id
assigned, if the bootloader is broken, people should either use a
working version, or fix the current one.
Also, using the memory-size to differ between these two machines sounds
like something thats doomed to fail in the future.
Nico
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 20:35 [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 20:35 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: Differentiate SheevaPlugs and DockStars on the basis of the memory size Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 20:35 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 21:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 21:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 22:45 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 22:45 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 23:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 23:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 23:22 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 23:22 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 2:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-07 2:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-07 8:55 ` Alexander Clouter
2011-04-07 21:31 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 21:31 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 21:44 ` Alexander Clouter
2011-04-07 21:44 ` Alexander Clouter
2011-04-07 21:59 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 21:59 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 22:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-07 22:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-07 23:04 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 23:04 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-08 7:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-08 7:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-08 8:38 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-08 8:38 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-09 8:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-04-09 8:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-04-10 18:14 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-10 18:14 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-10 19:29 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-10 19:29 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 23:23 ` Eric Cooper
2011-04-06 23:23 ` Eric Cooper
2011-04-06 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Remove machine type dockstar (use sheevaplug instead) Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 20:35 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 21:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 21:43 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 21:43 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-06 22:50 ` Nico Erfurth [this message]
2011-04-06 22:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars Nico Erfurth
2011-04-07 9:20 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 9:20 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 9:37 ` Nico Erfurth
2011-04-07 9:37 ` Nico Erfurth
2011-04-07 9:44 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 9:44 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-07 17:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-07 17:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-08 3:38 ` Alexander Holler
2011-04-08 3:38 ` Alexander Holler
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