From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: Linuxppc-dev Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: removing get_immrbase()??
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:59:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F0AC9C.7060905@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090423172633.GA16375@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru>
Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> This is exactly what we should try to avoid. We should not accept
> any changes that might break older firmwares. That is, keep the
> device tree workable with X1 and X2, by any means.
I think that's a much bigger restriction than trying to keep the kernel
compatible with older device trees. Consider changes in the physical
memory map, etc.
> If X1 looks for "/soc8323@..." and X2 looks for "/soc@...", so that
> Z1 and Z2 aren't compatible at all, then we're in trouble. But we're
> in trouble regardless of what Linux is doing, no?
Not if Linux can continue to deal with X1 and Z1.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 18:00 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
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 [this message]
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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