[PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at dowhile0.org
Wed Oct 29 16:54:01 PDT 2014


Hello Tony,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:39:16PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> From: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:05:54 -0700
>> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: Warn about deprecated legacy booting mode
>>
>> We're moving omaps to use device tree based booting and already have
>> omap2, omap4, omap5, am335x and am437x booting in device tree only
>> mode.
>>
>> Only omap3 still has legacy booting still around and we really want
>> to make that device tree only. So let's add a warning about deprecated
>> legacy booting so we get people to upgrade their boards to use device
>> tree based booting and find out about any remaining issues.
>>
>> Note that for most boards we already have the .dts file and those can
>> be booted with without changing the bootloader using the appended
>> DTB mode.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
>

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org>

Best regards,
Javier



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