[PATCH RESEND] ARM: EXYNOS: no more support non-DT for EXYNOS SoCs

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Apr 10 09:55:27 EDT 2013


On Wednesday 10 April 2013, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Hmm, it turns out we are still actively using some boards based on
> Exynos4210 EVT0 SoCs. And since it seems unlikely the patches from
> Tomasz [1] adding basic DT support for those will get merged for
> 3.10, it would be a bit inconvenient to remove the ATAGS support
> now, leaving Exynos4210 Rev. 0 not supported at all.

I still have hope to get those included.

> Not sure what's others opinion on that, and what would be an advantage
> of removing non-dt support for Exynos now, rather than in 3.11, vs. any
> possible inconvenience and regressions this could cause.

A multiplatform kernel will not work on an ATAGS based Exynos platform,
but I think we can have it both ways and allow either multiplatform
DT-only or single-platform with both DT and ATAGS in 3.10.

	Arnd



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