From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "Scott Wood" <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40808211614q72f6719btd391830abded58f6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ADDF86.2040200@freescale.com>
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
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 23:14 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 [this message]
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
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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