From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:47:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202352448.7079.112.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080206163554.GA18575@lixom.net>
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:35 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:01:57 -0600
> > Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:21:59PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > > > With the removal the the "rgmii-interface" device_type property from the
> > > > dts files, the newemac driver needs an update to only rely on compatible
> > > > property.
> > >
> > > What about systems using an older dts, such as one kexec:ing from an
> > > older kernel?
> >
> > Like what? Kexec doesn't work on 4xx yet.
>
> Sure, but similar restrictions would apply for customers who have a
> flashed device tree that want to boot a newer kernel. Deprecating old
> device tree support is something that should be done very carefully.
In that case, we -know- there was no such thing as the proper support
for 4xx in powerpc isn't really there before 2.6.25 anyway. The only
other is Cell/Axon which we verified still works.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-06 12:21 [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table Stefan Roese
2008-02-06 12:49 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-11 16:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-06 16:01 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-06 16:23 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-06 16:35 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-07 2:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-16 9:37 Stefan Roese
2008-01-16 9:39 ` David Gibson
2008-01-16 9:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-16 15:01 ` Josh Boyer
2008-01-30 6:16 ` Stefan Roese
2008-01-30 23:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-05 21:12 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-05 21:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-06 12:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-06 12:16 ` Stefan Roese
2008-01-17 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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