On 13/07/2022 12:55, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > On 2022-07-12 17:36, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 7/12/22 00:47, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >>> On 12/07/2022 04:11, William Zhang wrote: >>>> Update compatible string based on the new bcmbca binding rule >>>> for BCM4908 famliy based boards >>> >>> Typo - family >>> >>> Please explain why breaking the ABI (and users of these DTS_ is >>> acceptable. >> >> This will be largely targeted towards Rafal who supports these kinds >> of devices with an upstream kernel. My understanding is that this is >> OK because we will always ship a DTB matching the Linux kernel, and I >> believe this is true for both the way that William and his group >> support these devices, as well as how OpenWrt, buildroot or other >> build systems envision to support these devices. >> >> Rafal, does that sound about right? > > Right - in all cases I'm aware of - Linux gets shipped with DTB files. > So such change won't actually break anything in real world. We don't really talk here about Linux, but other projects, like bootloaders or *BSD... Best regards, Krzysztof
