[PATCH] maintainership update for the Marvell Orion family of SOCs

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue May 1 04:48:29 EDT 2012


> Well, there is no reason to rush this at all, it could live in parallel
> for a couple of years. But at one point we can decide that if nobody has
> bothered to write the .dts file for one board and tested it that nobody
> cares about that board any more and it can just get removed and possibly
> added back in dts form when someone does complain.

Probably a FAQ, but maybe somebody can point me in the right
direction. How will Debian, Ubuntu, etc, deal with old machines who's
u-boot does not support DT, yet the kernel has moved on and only has
DT support for a board? Will the kernel install process need to
determine what board the machine is and append the DT to the end of
the kernel? Or do we envisage a process where all DT are appended to
the kernel, and the machine ID, as passed by the old uboot, is used to
pick the correct DT?

    Thanks
	Andrew



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