[PATCH 8/9] arm/tegra: seaboard: add EMC table to device tree

[Olof Johansson]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:11:33AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >> Olof Johansson wrote at Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:18 PM:
> >>> Timings for the T25 version of seaboard, only one memory manufacturer
> >>> and timing table (two speeds).
> >>
> >> There exist Seaboards with Tegra20 rather than Tegra25. Should we:
> >> * Rename tegra-seaboard.dts to tegra-seaboard.dtsi
> >> * Create tegra-seaboard-t20.dts and tegra-seaboard-t25.dts which include
> >>  tegra-seaboard.dtsi, and add the EMC tables to the Tegra25 version only?
> >
> > Honestly, T20 seaboards are deprecated around here, we've been
> > replacing all we have with T25 models and keeping T20 support around
> > is a pain. I'd rather just ignore them if we can.
> 
> It's fun how board prototype problems sping up in several similar
> companies :-)
> 
> When I am confronted with similar problems I have taken the stance:
> 
> Q: is the board available outside my company esp to community
>  people and other hackers who will be pissed if I screw it up?
> 
> If the answer is no, and there is no risk that anyone will blame you
> for it on this mailinglist - delete it. Then handle the people that
> yell at you internally and ask them to bring their board to the
> junkpile.

Yeah, it's normally the way to do these things, with a transition
while the supply of newer hardware is still limited. It's a little more
complicated by the fact that I personally don't have control over what
Nvidia chooses to do internally. :)


-Olof