From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: dts: hip04: move bootwrapper to SRAM
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:35:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4774908.c54zTnV4pN@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B4F350.5040007@hisilicon.com>
On Tuesday 13 January 2015 18:28:32 Wei Xu wrote:
>
> > Generally speaking it's not ok to change firmware interfaces in
> > an incompatible way. The preferred way to handle this would be
> > to have the firmware that puts the boot wrapper into a different
> > place also update this property, if at all possible.
>
> I very agreed with you.
>
> But before we have two kind of firmwares one is boot from SVC supporting
> PXE/NAND/SATA/GRUB booting and the other is boot from HYP just supporting NAND
> booting.
> This time we updated the firmware and made it boot from HYP supporting
> PXE/NAND/SATA/GRUB as we hoped(thanks for Alex's supporting!).
>
> Since we have to publish a new firmware I think it is a chance to
> update the dts of kernel. How do you think about it?
The intention is certainly good. If you expect no further incompatible
changes, how about adding another .dts file for this machine that can
work with the old firmware?
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-13 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-13 3:13 [PATCH] ARM: dts: hip04: move bootwrapper to SRAM Wei Xu
2015-01-13 8:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-13 8:42 ` Wei Xu
2015-01-13 9:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-13 10:28 ` Wei Xu
2015-01-13 10:33 ` Alexander Graf
2015-01-13 13:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-14 10:51 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-14 11:03 ` Alexander Graf
2015-01-14 12:00 ` Mark Rutland
2015-01-13 13:35 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-01-13 14:18 ` Frediano Ziglio
2015-01-13 15:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-02-20 15:30 ` Frediano Ziglio
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