[PATCH 0/4] RealView boardfile endgame

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Feb 25 08:10:42 PST 2016


On Thursday 25 February 2016 16:29:31 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 February 2016 14:15:07 Linus Walleij wrote:
> >> This patch set deletes the RealView board files and moves it
> >> over to a pure Device Tree boot, deleting ~3500 LoC.
> (...)
> > This leaves the question whether we should do all the preparation
> > in 4.6 and then only take these for 4.7, or do them all at
> > once. I can see good reasons either way, but none of them
> > particularly strong. What did you have in mind here?
> 
> If the dependencies in CLCD and MTD make it in we'll just
> merge the whole thing IMO.
> 
> If these drag out, we merge the device trees and wait with
> removing the board files until v4.7.
> 
> I will still have some remaining cleanup for Integrator, Versatile
> and also Versatile Express however, but that is for later.
> 
> 

Ok, sounds good.

	Arnd



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