From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Remove legacy booting support for Pandora
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:26:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150716162616.GO17550@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANOLnOPQHOY5Up8+uKQn-JTK4zN=iK+owSN2KjhJGNFLVzN9yQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com> [150716 07:16]:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> > We've been moving all omap2+ based systems to boot in device tree only
> > mode for a few years now. Only omap3 has legacy booting support
> > remaining. Most omap3 boards already have related arch/arm/boot/*.dts*
> > files for booting with device tree.
> >
> > This board has support for device tree based booting, and we've been
> > printing warnings about the legacy booting being deprecated for a
> > few merge cycles now. Let's attempt to remove the legacy booting
> > for it.
> >
> > The reason for removing the legacy booting support now rather than
> > later is we can simply revert this patch if necessary if we run
> > into some unexpected issues that are not trivial to fix for the
> > device tree based booting.
>
> It seems we lose wifi, backlight, audio and usb host mainline support
> with this as pandora's .dts currently lacks all that stuff.
> That said I'm not aware of any mainline users (everyone seems to be on
> our "vendor" kernel), so maybe we can add those later.
Hmm wifi should be easy, isn't that just libertas_sdio?
> > Cc: Signed-off-by: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
>
> I have not signed this off...
Oops sorry I copied your email address from git log.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 11:59 [PATCH 0/2] Drop two more omap3 legacy board files for v4.3 merge window Tony Lindgren
2015-07-16 11:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Remove legacy booting support for LogicPD Torpedo Tony Lindgren
2015-07-16 11:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Remove legacy booting support for Pandora Tony Lindgren
2015-07-16 14:13 ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2015-07-16 16:26 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2015-07-17 4:54 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-07-17 11:22 ` Grazvydas Ignotas
2015-07-17 13:49 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-07-17 8:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] Drop two more omap3 legacy board files for v4.3 merge window Sebastian Reichel
2015-07-17 13:47 ` Tony Lindgren
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