[LEDE-DEV] Convert ar71xx to devicetree

[John Crispin]

On 08/12/2016 18:06, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On 2016-12-08 17:31, John Crispin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i was planning to start working on this in early 2017. i was hoping that
>> rather than converting ar71xx to DT we simply create a new target called
>> ath79 and start moving board support over from the legacy to the new
>> target. this would allow us to make the ath79 target much cleaner than
>> having to worry about legacy cruft.
>>
>> converting all the mach files to dts files is also a bit tricky. back in
>> the day when i converted ramips, i simply create a host lib that
>> provided all the platform_*() callbacks used by the mach files. however
>> rather than register anything the code simply generated the matching dts
>> files. this was really ugly, run once and throw away code.
>>
>> can you share the patches you have already created ? i think we could
>> start working on this now and once the new ath79 target starts to be
>> usable we simply refuse to merge patches to ar71xx and only accept ones
>> for ath79
> I think making this a separate target will make the transition period a
> lot more confusing for users. I think it should not be too hard to
> support both DT and non-DT devices with the same kernel.
> 
> I fully agree with refusing to accept non-DT device support once a few
> devices work with DT.
> 
> - Felix
> 

how would that be confusing ? i would argue the exact opposite

	John