From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: "clk: sunxi: Add a simple gates driver" breaks kernel with older DTB Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:15:52 +0100 Message-ID: <560E6768.6040705@citrix.com> References: <1443689231.16718.225.camel@citrix.com> <20151001204506.GR7104@lukather> <560E5767.2040502@citrix.com> <20151002105333.GA2696@lukather> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151002105333.GA2696@lukather> Sender: linux-clk-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Maxime Ripard Cc: Ian Campbell , Mark Rutland , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll , =?windows-1252?Q?Emilio_L=F3pez?= , Michael Turquette , Stephen Boyd , Rob Herring , KumarGala , linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org 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. Regards, -- Julien Grall