85xx FDT updates?

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Wed Apr 26 05:27:14 EST 2006


On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:14:28PM -0500, Andy Fleming wrote:
> I think there's some confusion here (at least, I'm confused), so let  
> me see if I have this right:
> 
> 1) Kumar is advocating the eventual removal of support for booting  
> the 85xx CDS and 85xx ADS boards without a flat-device tree
> 
> 2) Eugene and Dan say this will break systems that are already deployed
> 
> 3) Kumar says that the 85xx CDS and ADS systems are reference  
> platforms, and therefore not meant for deployment.
> 
> 4) Eugene implies that removal of 85xx CDS and ADS support from arch/ 
> ppc should be accompanied by some sort of compatibility options for  
> booting arch/powerpc Linux from an old u-boot
> 
> Do I have this right?

Yes :)

-- 
Eugene




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