From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Check flat device tree version at boot
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:55:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409277356.9191.4.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_Jsq+DSC4DW-ULuFfUjowsCOXbRnXvYSQcLY4inuBuztuh7A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 09:27 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > In commit e6a6928c3ea1 "of/fdt: Convert FDT functions to use libfdt",
> > the kernel stopped supporting old flat device tree formats. The minimum
> > supported version is now 0x10.
>
> Ugg. Is that something which needs to be supported? Supporting it at
> this point would mean adding support to libfdt.
Well it would have been nice to keep supporting v2, dropping it broke
kexec-tools for example. But it's done now, so we'll just deal with the
fallout.
If you can CC linuxppc-dev in future on patches that fundamentally change the
device tree parsing that would be appreciated :)
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-29 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-28 8:40 [PATCH] powerpc: Check flat device tree version at boot Michael Ellerman
2014-08-28 14:27 ` Rob Herring
2014-08-29 1:55 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2014-08-29 11:13 ` Grant Likely
2014-08-29 14:31 ` Rob Herring
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