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

Jason Cooper
2014-02-20T23:26:49Z

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:39:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 11:19 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > What's wrong with the soc subsystem (drivers/base/soc.c). This
> > provides a way to export SoC through standardised interfaces.
>
> It looks like the thing to use to me.
>
> It seems to have been around only since v3.3 though, which makes it a
> bit tricky to use when upgrading from running board-file based v3.2
> system (Debian Wheezy) to a newer DTB based kernel, we need to select
> the new DTB while running the old system.
>
> I'd prefer to use this thing as the primary mechanism but it seems like
> I'd have to implement some sort of fallback at least for one Debian
> release cycle. I'm sure it is doable...

back in v3.2, lspci should still work. Would that given you the
information you need?

thx,

Jason.