From: andre.przywara@arm•com (Andre Przywara)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: breaking DT compatibility
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:16:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BCA5CD.3080008@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160211145158.GA8824@localhost.localdomain>
Hi,
On 11/02/16 14:51, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:00:48AM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> None of our existing users ever complained.
>
> Note to self:
>
> Avoid choosing this SoC for new projects. The maintainers do not
> care about the end users.
Now that's a bit harsh, I think.
Maxime is doing a great job for maintaining this admittedly not very
well architected and documented SoC "family" - in his spare time.
Also the actual end user experience is probably just fine (despite
broken DT compatibility), since on these storage-less boards the
distributions usually ship DT, firmware (U-Boot) and kernel bundled
together.
This does not qualify for breaking the DT deliberately, but we are about
to fix this as we speak.
Also my concern was just that I wanted to move away from this being the
only way of running Linux on those boards.
We may think about collecting DTBs and firmware for those boards in a
central place without direct connection to a certain Linux version or
distribution. This would make the whole idea more visible and would make
compatibility breaks more evident.
Cheers,
Andre.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-11 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 20:20 [PATCH v4] clk: sunxi: Refactor A31 PLL6 so that it can be reused Maxime Ripard
2016-02-04 12:05 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-04 15:25 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2016-02-10 12:53 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-10 17:04 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2016-02-11 9:53 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-05 17:59 ` Andre Przywara
2016-02-10 12:30 ` breaking DT compatibility (was: Re: [PATCH v4] clk: sunxi: Refactor A31 PLL6 so that it can be reused) Andre Przywara
2016-02-10 13:42 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-10 14:37 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-10 14:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-10 16:14 ` breaking DT compatibility Andre Przywara
2016-02-11 10:16 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-10 16:30 ` breaking DT compatibility (was: Re: [PATCH v4] clk: sunxi: Refactor A31 PLL6 so that it can be reused) Mark Rutland
2016-02-11 10:00 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-11 11:44 ` Mark Rutland
2016-02-11 12:29 ` breaking DT compatibility Andre Przywara
2016-02-11 17:08 ` breaking DT compatibility (was: Re: [PATCH v4] clk: sunxi: Refactor A31 PLL6 so that it can be reused) Maxime Ripard
2016-02-12 9:40 ` Lucas Stach
2016-02-16 8:44 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-16 19:40 ` Michael Turquette
2016-02-11 14:51 ` Richard Cochran
2016-02-11 15:16 ` Andre Przywara [this message]
2016-02-11 21:46 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-10 12:59 ` [PATCH v4] clk: sunxi: Refactor A31 PLL6 so that it can be reused Maxime Ripard
2016-02-10 14:02 ` Rob Herring
2016-02-11 9:41 ` Maxime Ripard
2016-02-10 18:41 ` Mark Rutland
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