[GIT PULL] drop last omap3 board files for v4.8

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Sep 2 07:05:26 PDT 2016


On Thursday, September 1, 2016 8:40:57 AM CEST Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [160816 08:53]:
> > The following changes since commit 79cdad3635b3a253d712aba115fa274ef94a8c6b:
> > 
> >   ir-rx51: use hrtimer instead of dmtimer (2016-06-29 21:54:35 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap tags/omap-for-v4.8/legacy-signed
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to e92fc4f04a34a407f5ff8acaa13127c62b7bec07:
> > 
> >   ARM: OMAP2+: Drop legacy board file for LDP (2016-07-10 23:47:38 -0700)
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Remove the last two legacy board-*.c files for omap3 for legacy
> > booting for v4.8 to allow making mach-omap2 device tree only for
> > v4.9.
> > 
> > We've had Nokia N900 and omap3 LDP board-*.c files remaining
> > while other omap3 devices have been device tree only for quite
> > a while now. Also N900 and LDP have had device tree based booting
> > working for years now, but few drivers for N900 were still only
> > working in legacy only mode until recently. With the remaining
> > issues out of the way, we discussed on the mailing lists that
> > we're finally OK to remove the remaining board-*.c files.
> > 
> > For the timing of this pull request, I wanted to wait until
> > v4.8-rc1 is out to make sure the legacy booting still works fine
> > after the merge window before doing it.
> > 
> > And for v4.8, let's not touch any other platform data in case we
> > still need to revert for some reason. This makes the revert just a
> > question of adding back the legacy board-*.c files.
> > 
> > Then if no issues, we can remove the unused remaining platform
> > data later on for v4.9.
> 
> Naturally this can wait for v4.9 merge window too if considered
> too intrusive this late.

I'd prefer to do it as a cleanup for 4.9, and added the pull
request to my todo folder for that now, will get to it along
with the other pull requests.

	Arnd




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