From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:26:32 +0000 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Machine id hack to prevent loading buggy sunxi-3.4 kernels In-Reply-To: <54E852DC.7000609@redhat.com> References: <1424419706-4687-1-git-send-email-siarhei.siamashka@gmail.com> <54E6FC37.10104@redhat.com> <20150220123631.311ff98e@i7> <54E74078.80701@redhat.com> <20150220203301.77544929@i7> <54E852DC.7000609@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1424514392.25370.57.camel@hellion.org.uk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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.