[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support

Ian Campbell
2014-02-24T16:03:15Z

On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 02:00 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:24 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:23 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> [...]
> > > What i suspect we will end up doing it dropping the last patch for the
> > > moment and ensuring ARCH_KIRKWOOD still supports all the DT machines.
> > > I think that just needs care with arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile.
> > >
> > > Once we have the last four converted over to DT, you can then do a
> > > straight swap, mach-kirkwood for mach-mvebu.
> >
> > That sounds like a good plan, thanks!
> >
> > If we are going to do a straight swap I suppose it might as go for a v5
> > multiplatform flavour instead of a mvebu specific one.
> [...]
>
> I would love it if we could do that.
>
> By the way, we still have the problem that at least one supported
> orion5x machine (D-Link DNS-323) only has a ~1.5 MB kernel partition.
> So we would probably have to keep a reduced orion5x config for those
> machines, alongside the mvebu or multiplatform kernel.

Sure. I think at worst we should aim to end up with as many flavour as
we have today, in reality I expect we should be able to end up with
fewer (even if only -= 1).

BTW, someone (I forget who) at Debconf in Cambridge last year floated
the idea of putting a stage 2 loader in flash to pull the real kernel
from some larger storage. I don't know if that is realistic here, and in
any case I don't intend to work on it myself.

Ian.