[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Thu Feb 20 21:00:27 EST 2014


On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:24 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:23 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
[...]
> > What i suspect we will end up doing it dropping the last patch for the
> > moment and ensuring ARCH_KIRKWOOD still supports all the DT machines.
> > I think that just needs care with arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile.
> > 
> > Once we have the last four converted over to DT, you can then do a
> > straight swap, mach-kirkwood for mach-mvebu.
> 
> That sounds like a good plan, thanks!
> 
> If we are going to do a straight swap I suppose it might as go for a v5
> multiplatform flavour instead of a mvebu specific one.
[...]

I would love it if we could do that.

By the way, we still have the problem that at least one supported
orion5x machine (D-Link DNS-323) only has a ~1.5 MB kernel partition.
So we would probably have to keep a reduced orion5x config for those
machines, alongside the mvebu or multiplatform kernel.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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