[PATCH v7 3/3] [POWERPC] MPC832x_RDB: update dts to use SPI1in QE, register mmc_spi stub
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Fri Sep 7 11:28:51 EST 2007
David Gibson wrote:
> Firmwares are, more often than not, crap, and that's unlikely to
> change. For a lot of things, having the kernel or bootwrapper cope as
> a special case with a handful of crap firmwares which don't set things
> up properly isn't actually any easier than having it set them up
> itself, always.
Similarly, firmware is very often unlikely to be updated. So we need to
support situations where we use old firmware with new kernels. The cuImage
support is a classic example of this. Moving code from kernel to firmware
just because some people think it belongs in the firmware is usually impractical.
If we added code to U-Boot today to configure the par_io pins, it would
probably still be years before we could safely remove that code from the kernel.
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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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