85xx FDT updates?

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:49 AM, Eugene Surovegin wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:08:00AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Dan Malek wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>
>>>> However, I am against removing the arch/ppc support until the u- 
>>>> boot
>>>> patches are picked up.  I think its bad form to give people a  
>>>> kernel
>>>> they can't easily boot.
>>>
>>> What about systems that can't update u-boot, but want to run
>>> a newer kernel?
>>
>> Does this situation exist for any in tree boards that are supported?
>
> Kumar, with all due respect, I don't like this attitude. I can have
> eval board where I don't want to upgrade firmware.
>
> Also, this "let's screw everybody who doesn't have their board support
> in tree" is very counter productive. FYI, almost all my contributed
> kernel work was done on custom hardware, not on reference boards.
>
> It seems some people here lost touch with reality - embedded Linux is
> mostly run on custom hardware, not on evaluation boards.

Well, first all I said was that we shouldn't remove arch/ppc support  
until the u-boot patches are in.  I made no statement about when  
after that we should remove arch/ppc support.

Second, this seems normal like normal kernel development to me.  I  
think its reasonable to pick some time frame after which we will  
remove the support and to let everyone know what that is.  I see this  
as no different than having a driver outside of the kernel tree and  
having it break when APIs change.

- kumar