On 12/05/2013 12:34 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@blackshift.org> [2013-12-05 11:49]: >> That's no option, as non DT Sheeva Plug support has been removed from >> the kernel in ffbc50663b69462adc9d97b93b6b92c4fe74b94c: >> >> ffbc506 ARM: kirkwood: remove support for legacy booting of Sheevaplug > > Interesting. I thought they promised not to remove non-DT support for > existing devices. I personally don't mind, if it's removed once the DT works properly. > Anyway, Marc, so thanks for your patch. I wonder if it makes sense to > add a check to flash-kernel whether DT is required or not. i.e. that > flash-kernel would append the DT blob on 3.12+ kernels on SheevaPlug > but not on previous kernels. Yes, sounds like the way to go. Otherwise you have to tie certain flash-kernel versions to the non-DT and DT kernels. This will probably not scale when more no-DT board are removed from the kernel. Where should this information go? What about adding another field to all.db which limits an entry to certain kernel versions? Something like this: Machine: Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board Kernel-Flavors: kirkwood Kernel-Version: < 3.12 U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x00008000 U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x0 Boot-Kernel-Path: /boot/uImage Boot-Initrd-Path: /boot/uInitrd Required-Packages: u-boot-tools Bootloader-Sets-Root: no Machine: Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board Kernel-Flavors: kirkwood Kernel-Version: >= 3.12 DTB-Id: kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb DTB-Append: yes U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x00008000 U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x0 Boot-Kernel-Path: /boot/uImage Boot-Initrd-Path: /boot/uInitrd Boot-DTB-Path: dtb Required-Packages: u-boot-tools Bootloader-Sets-Root: no Marc
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