[PATCH 21/21] ARM: Kirkwood: Remove DT support
Ian Campbell
ijc at hellion.org.uk
Mon Feb 24 11:00:30 EST 2014
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 18:26 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:39:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 11:19 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > What's wrong with the soc subsystem (drivers/base/soc.c). This
> > > provides a way to export SoC through standardised interfaces.
> >
> > It looks like the thing to use to me.
> >
> > It seems to have been around only since v3.3 though, which makes it a
> > bit tricky to use when upgrading from running board-file based v3.2
> > system (Debian Wheezy) to a newer DTB based kernel, we need to select
> > the new DTB while running the old system.
> >
> > I'd prefer to use this thing as the primary mechanism but it seems like
> > I'd have to implement some sort of fallback at least for one Debian
> > release cycle. I'm sure it is doable...
>
> back in v3.2, lspci should still work. Would that given you the
> information you need?
I expect it will, yes.
Ian.
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