From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sre@kernel.org (Sebastian Reichel) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:47:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP2+: Drop legacy board file for n900 In-Reply-To: <1465987689-14812-2-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> References: <1465987689-14812-1-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> <1465987689-14812-2-git-send-email-tony@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20160615134741.GA16860@earth> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:48:08AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Let's drop the last two remaining omap3 legacy boot board files. > Let's only use the device tree based booting known to work for > these two boards. > > We still have two omap3 boards booting in legacy mode in addition > to device tree based booting. All the other ten or so omap2+ SoCs > have been booting using device tree mode only for years now. This > has allowed us to get rid of quite a bit of arch/arm/mach-omap2 > related platform init code in favor of dts and driver changes. > > Pretty much the only remaining known users for omap3 legacy boot > board files are Kevin's and Russell's boot test systems, and N900 > kernel tree maintained by Pali and Ivaylo. And all of them are > also supporting the device tree based booting. The legacy booting > mode has been kept around mostly to verify against regressions. > > As there is still a slim chance of possible other uses of the > mainline kernel for these boards, let's just drop the board > files for v4.8, and let's not touch the related platform init > code until around v4.9 time if no issues are found. This makes > it trivial for us to add back the board files with a simple revert. > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren I don't remember when I last booted N900 without DT, must have been a couple of years :) Acked-By: Sebastian Reichel -- Sebastian -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: