Re: OMAP baseline test results for v3.10-rc6

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On 06/26/2013 05:15 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 04:22:29PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 06/25/2013 03:57 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>> Just to confirm, my problems with mainline were with appended DTB also.
>>> Separate DTB and zImage work fine (at least using u-boot v2013.04.)
>>>
>>> That being said, appended DTB should still work, so there's a bug hiding
>>> someplace that needs to be found fixed.
>>
>> Since we've narrowed down what the problem is, someone can bisect it
>> now, yeah.
>>
>>> Can you guys update your tests to test appended DTB also?
>>
>> What is the official position on appending DTBs?
> 
> If a platform goes from being able to boot without a DTB to requiring
> a DTB, we must continue to support booting on that platform in some
> manner otherwise it is a regression.
> 
> And no, I don't term upgrading uboot as an acceptable regression fix.
> So if appended DTB doesn't work, that needs fixing before the non-DTB
> support for a platform is removed, otherwise we _will_ have a regression.

am335x never had a board file in mainline, so it's always required a DTB.

Now, I assume you're still saying that whatever software, except for the
kernel of course, shipped on the SD card, has to be supported for
forever by the kernel, right?

-- 
Tom