[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels

[Ian Campbell <ijc+uboot@hellion.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 10:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> By the right thing I mean having things just work for the end user,
> whatever I'm doing having things just work is always my end goal.
> This is also why I'm mostly focussing upstream, which has resulted in
> Fedora 21 and the upcoming Debian release supporting allwinner devices
> ootb (albeit only headless) and the upcoming F-22 release will have
> much improved allwinner device support, supporting more devices, and
> supporting video output, etc.

Speaking of which, if someone were to identify a suitable set of
simple-fb backports for 3.16 and they are reasonably self contained I'd
happily backport them to the kenrel which is going to be in the next
Debian release too...

> Ian, can you live with overloading the high machine-id bits to
> deliberately break old kernels when not compiled with old kernel
> compatibility?

It kind of sucks, but so do all the options it seems, I guess we can
live with it...

Ian.