[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] ARM legacy board DT conversion finalization

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:

>> We should really have this in multiplatform soon, I think the last issue
>> for versatile is common clock support, but Linus Walleij may have more
>> details about what remains here.
>
> While not necessarily the same thing, but does move versatile in the
> right direction, I've got patches in progress which fully move
> versatile over to DT.

Doing this two-stage rocket:
Legacy -> DT -> multiplatform

Is usually the smoothest. That is what I did on U300, U8500
and will do on the Integrator.

> I'd like to do this all in one step to avoid doing things like non-DT
> common clock init. It's blocked on the common DT PCI code and my free
> time.

I agree. And invariably this will confuse a lot of QEMU users
until they figure out how to boot their new image with a device
tree. But that is business as usual I guess.

> There are then a few bits related to mach/plat headers needed move
> versatile to multiplatform. I think these issues are mostly the same
> changes that have been done or are needed on integrator which is what
> Linus has been working on.

I'm onto these as part of both Integrator and RealView modernization.

Yours,
Linus Walleij