Bug#803159: linux: Enable DT support for armel/orion5x arch
On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 23:20 +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote:
> Package: linux
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> There're some updates for armel/orion5x in Linux 4.3 kernel:
> - Buffalo Linkstation LS-WTGL: DT support newly added
> - Buffalo Linkstation LS-WSGL: converted to DT
>
> But currently, armel/orion5x kernel doesn't support DT well.
> Here's the patch to enable DT support for armel/orion5x.
>
> However, I met some issues during testing on my LS-WTGL box,
> and found it's because the kernel image size exceeded the
> limit of u-boot.
Given this and the discussions
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/10/msg00221.html
I wonder how useful it turns out to be to apply this patch.
I suppose even if the given platform doesn't work due to uboot
limitations the general direction of enabling DT seems sound so long as
it doesn't push us over the current size limit, but if there are no
supported platforms which use this functionality perhaps we should wait
until then.
So I'm in too minds, and other pkg-kernel or ARM folks have any
thoughts?
> After I revert commit b3b60bbdd13 [0], it
> boot smoothly.
>
> I hope this patch can be applied soon. Thank you!
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
> Reference [0]:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/commit/debian/config
> /armel/config.orion5x?id=b3b60bbdd13a9702dbd8e00bd9b35d49b625df31
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