From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>
Cc: "Ian Campbell" <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, "Pawel Moll" <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
"Emilio López" <emilio@elopez.com.ar>,
"Michael Turquette" <mturquette@baylibre.com>,
"Stephen Boyd" <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
KumarGala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
"freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: "clk: sunxi: Add a simple gates driver" breaks kernel with older DTB
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 14:29:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151005122952.GJ2696@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <560E6768.6040705@citrix.com>
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On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:15:52PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 02/10/15 11:53, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> If no, that's very unfortunate because it means that you can't
> >> re-use the same DT across multiple OS and the DT provided by the
> >> firmware (if it's built-in).
> >
> > Is there such OS yet (and by that, I mean one that actually shares our
> > DT, instead of rewriting its own) ?
>
> Yes, FreeBSD started to support the DT provided by vendors which are
> based on Linux bindings. The ARM64 port is only using DTB provided by
> the hardware. For ARM32, there is still some platform using a specific
> DT for FreeBSD but they are trying to get a ride.
Well, it would have been good if they contacted us in the first place
then, because this has never been considered seriously afaik, and we
never stated that it actually was an ABI.
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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2015-10-01 8:47 "clk: sunxi: Add a simple gates driver" breaks kernel with older DTB Ian Campbell
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2015-10-01 20:45 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-10-02 10:07 ` Julien Grall
2015-10-02 10:53 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-10-02 11:15 ` Julien Grall
2015-10-05 12:29 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
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