[PATCH 04/10] bus: introduce an Marvell EBU MBus driver

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 7 15:28:54 EST 2013


Dear Jason Gunthorpe,

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:55:41 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > Adding description of windows in the Device Tree can be added later on,
> > in a completely DT backward compatible way, and the mvebu-devbus driver
> > can be adjusted accordingly.
> 
> Hmm.. You could make a new DT that is compatible with an older kernel,
> but once the mvebu_mbus_add_window is moved into the mbus driver it
> would require an updated DT.

So what is your proposal that preserves non-DT compatibility? As I
already said multiple times, we still have non-DT platforms around, and
we can leave them on the side on this topic, so we have to have a
solution that keeps non-DT compatibility for the moment.

Thanks,

Thomas
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