85xx FDT updates?

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Wed Apr 26 04:24:18 EST 2006


On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> >What you will end up with is that that small amount of embedded people
> >who bother to contribute something back will stop doing this. We are
> >more than capable of maintaining our internal kernel trees :).
> 
> I'm not sure what to say to this.  Things need to move forward at  
> some point.  

I don't see how removing features and breaking compatibility with 
almost _all_ current embedded PPC boards boards is "moving forward". 
Enlighten me, please.

> I still not clear as to what exactly you are advocating  
> beyond that we should keep the arch/ppc code around for ever.

Providing compatibility for non-flat-tree firmware. This doesn't mean 
keeping arch/ppc.

-- 
Eugene




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