[PATCH 0/3]: Sparc OF I2C support.

[Jon Smirl]

On 8/21/08, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
>  > David Miller wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10:12AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> >> If you guys created this format in your compressed openfirmware
>  >> trees, is it possible for you to "fix" it to match what Sparc
>  >> systems following the proper bindings do?
>  >
>  > Possibly, though it'll cause some pain when old trees are used with a kernel
>  > that expects the new binding.
>
>
> Ugh, more like loads of pain.  There are deployed platforms using the
>  embedded 'invented' bindings.  I don't think it is an option to break
>  compatibility with older trees.  If there is some backwards
>  compatibility code then I'm all for migrating to the same binding as
>  Sparc and PowerMac

Has anything really been deployed? These bindings are only a few months old.


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Jon Smirl
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