From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org,
Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:45:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910808211645p27ff2c6ci6dba6f363e9ece15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa686aa40808211614q72f6719btd391830abded58f6@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/21/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
> > David Miller wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:12AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> >> If you guys created this format in your compressed openfirmware
> >> trees, is it possible for you to "fix" it to match what Sparc
> >> systems following the proper bindings do?
> >
> > Possibly, though it'll cause some pain when old trees are used with a kernel
> > that expects the new binding.
>
>
> Ugh, more like loads of pain. There are deployed platforms using the
> embedded 'invented' bindings. I don't think it is an option to break
> compatibility with older trees. If there is some backwards
> compatibility code then I'm all for migrating to the same binding as
> Sparc and PowerMac
Has anything really been deployed? These bindings are only a few months old.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 7:10 [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support David Miller
2008-08-21 16:32 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-21 21:21 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 21:35 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-21 21:45 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:27 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 22:28 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 22:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-21 23:32 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 1:15 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 3:53 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 4:18 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:22 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 4:29 ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22 4:30 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:34 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 4:37 ` David Miller
2008-08-22 5:19 ` Mitch Bradley
2008-08-22 16:00 ` Yoder Stuart
2008-08-22 16:13 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 10:50 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-22 11:06 ` David Miller
2008-08-21 23:45 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2008-08-22 2:33 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-22 2:39 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-22 15:58 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-22 16:44 ` Grant Likely
2008-08-21 22:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-08-21 21:53 ` Jon Smirl
2008-08-21 21:58 ` David Miller
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