[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: use 0xf1000000 as internal registers on Armada 370 DB

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Apr 2 06:28:09 PDT 2015


On Thursday 02 April 2015 11:16:24 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The Armada 370 DB boards are now being used with a more recent version
> of U-Boot, which has Device Tree support, and remaps internal
> registers at 0xf1000000 like most of the other Marvell EBU platforms.
> 
> Consequently, this commit updates the Device Tree describing this
> platform to use this new internal register address, so that the
> mainline kernel can easily be used on such boards that use a modern
> bootloader. A comment is also added to warn users who could have
> boards with an older bootloader version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

I think it would be better to add a new .dts file that includes the
former, and give it a new name, such as armada-370-db-broken-uboot.dts.

We should not stop supporting the older versions, and it would be better
to revert the bootloader change in their u-boot before it spreads too far.

	Arnd



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