Request review of device tree documentation
Jamie Lokier
jamie at shareable.org
Mon Jun 14 12:33:24 EDT 2010
Grant Likely wrote:
> > Like initrd, some people will find they need to compile it in to the
> > kernel image to fit some bootloader they can't change, or daren't risk
> > changing in already rolled out devices that they want to update to a
> > DT-using kernel.
>
> Yes, I fully expect that. Fortunately the situation is better than it
> was with powerpc. Since the machine id is being retained, a
> DT-enabled kernel can continue to support non-DT systems. There will
> not be a flag day to cut everything over to a new boot interface.
That's excellent, thank you. I was a bit unsure about how that was going.
-- Jamie
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