[RFC PATCH] ARM: dts: Convert Linkstation Mini to Device Tree

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Mon Jun 22 05:12:59 PDT 2015


On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:08:39PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
...
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> > > index 2412efb..08d2be2 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-orion5x/Kconfig
> > > @@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ config MACH_LINKSTATION_LSCHL
> > >  	  Buffalo Linkstation Live v3 (LS-CHL) platform.
> > >  
> > >  config MACH_LINKSTATION_MINI
> > > -	bool "Buffalo Linkstation Mini"
> > > -	select I2C_BOARDINFO
> > > +	bool "Buffalo Linkstation Mini (Flattened Device Tree)"
> > > +	select ARCH_ORION5X_DT
> > >  	help
> > >  	  Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
> > > -	  Buffalo Linkstation Mini platform.
> > > +	  Buffalo Linkstation Mini (LS-WSGL) platform.
> > 
> > Hmmm, this question is for the other mvebu maintainers:  When we
> > originally converted kirkwood and dove, we put a lot of effort into
> > keeping the board files and the dts files around in parallel for a
> > while.  Do we need to do that here?  All the drivers are converted, so
> > we don't need to keep the legacy board files for that reason.
> 
> We get so little interest in orion5x, and it has been shown to be
> broken for quite a while with respect to IRQ0, that if a real user
> comes by and swaps his platform to DT only, i say we go with it.

Ack.

thx,

Jason.



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