From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ebshome.net (gate.ebshome.net [64.81.67.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "gate.ebshome.net", Issuer "gate.ebshome.net" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2374867A67 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:31:20 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:31:18 -0700 From: Eugene Surovegin To: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: 85xx FDT updates? Message-ID: <20060425163118.GD20228@gate.ebshome.net> References: <1145900516.4251.18.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com> <4C61B597-BD91-4D05-BB40-43DE0319F123@kernel.crashing.org> <17017F03-078C-4B7F-A961-EC371F534E27@embeddedalley.com> <34C11E8A-ED04-490F-B601-841DC1F94AD6@kernel.crashing.org> <20060425074902.GA20228@gate.ebshome.net> <20060425161200.GC20228@gate.ebshome.net> <6F7CAB43-B4C0-47DA-BC7D-3FD04A552131@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <6F7CAB43-B4C0-47DA-BC7D-3FD04A552131@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list" , Paul Mackerras List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:25:59AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > If we are talking about a reference board than I think this is an > absurd requirement. If you are willing to update your kernel on such > a board why would you not be willing to update the firmware as well. 1) I don't have JTAG 2) I don't trust new U-Boot version 3) I want to be able to boot old kernels What you are proposing is more like saying - we changed kernel user-space API, old applications aren't supported anymore, get the new libc and rebuild them all. For some reason we don't intentionally do this, I wonder why. -- Eugene