From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
Linuxppc-dev Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: removing get_immrbase()??
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:07:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F0680C.1040205@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80CA86D4-3DA5-4C28-AE7A-C03CE5758774@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> Until we meet the most basic level of properly describing 95% of the
> HW I don't see the value you guys prescribe to FW compatibility.
> Additionally I believe for embedded developers its perfectly
> reasonable to expect them (if they are using u-boot) to possibly have
> to update their .dts/dtb if they want to update their kernel.
That sounds like you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Just because we can't get close to 100% representation of the hardware
in the DTS, that does not mean that the representation we do have should
be considered tenuous (for lack of a better word).
We should *strive* to maintain backwards compatibility. If that means
adding a few lines of isolated code every now and then, I don't see that
as a bad thing at all.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 18:38 removing get_immrbase()?? Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 19:35 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 20:16 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 20:20 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 21:31 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 21:33 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 21:39 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 21:46 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 21:54 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 21:57 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-22 22:07 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 22:00 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 22:00 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:54 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-22 21:38 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 21:55 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 22:33 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 0:03 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 2:26 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 3:36 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 4:06 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 4:41 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-28 4:12 ` David Gibson
2009-04-28 13:48 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:07 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2009-04-23 15:56 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 13:02 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 13:50 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 14:02 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-23 14:06 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 14:09 ` Timur Tabi
2009-04-24 14:40 ` Wrobel Heinz-R39252
2009-04-23 14:13 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 16:00 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 16:54 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 17:03 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 17:26 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-23 17:59 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-28 4:25 ` David Gibson
2009-04-28 4:21 ` David Gibson
2009-04-23 13:53 ` Grant Likely
2009-04-23 14:03 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-04-28 4:26 ` David Gibson
2009-04-22 19:44 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-22 20:00 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-22 20:30 ` Scott Wood
2009-04-23 13:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
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