[PATCH 0/5 v2] mv643xx_eth: device tree bindings
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 15 20:00:11 EST 2013
Dear Jason Cooper,
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:00:37 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > So let's continue the cleanup work, conversion to DT, usage of
> > drivers in drivers/, improvement of pinmux to support
> > orion5x/mv78xx0, and do the move per-platform, once they are ready.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I agree completely. I was simply restating the longview goal of the
> work we are doing (above and beyond adding armadaXP/370). I probably
> should have given a time reference for "This will lead to..." :)
Ok. I definitely agree with the long-term goal.
> Also, I have a feeling that not all legacy boards will get converted
> over. If there is no interest or no way to test, certains boards may
> get deprecated.
I think for many of them, we can do a 'blind' conversion to DT, and ask
the users who have posted patches or even submitted support for those
boards to test the DT. But I don't think we should move things into
mach-mvebu if there are still legacy non-DT Kirkwood platforms
supported in mach-kirkwood. So either we convert them to the DT, or we
remove the support for them if no-one is really interested. But I
believe in most cases, converting them to DT should be quite easy.
Best regards,
Thomas
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