Hi, On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:48:08AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Let's drop the last two remaining omap3 legacy boot board files. > Let's only use the device tree based booting known to work for > these two boards. > > We still have two omap3 boards booting in legacy mode in addition > to device tree based booting. All the other ten or so omap2+ SoCs > have been booting using device tree mode only for years now. This > has allowed us to get rid of quite a bit of arch/arm/mach-omap2 > related platform init code in favor of dts and driver changes. > > Pretty much the only remaining known users for omap3 legacy boot > board files are Kevin's and Russell's boot test systems, and N900 > kernel tree maintained by Pali and Ivaylo. And all of them are > also supporting the device tree based booting. The legacy booting > mode has been kept around mostly to verify against regressions. > > As there is still a slim chance of possible other uses of the > mainline kernel for these boards, let's just drop the board > files for v4.8, and let's not touch the related platform init > code until around v4.9 time if no issues are found. This makes > it trivial for us to add back the board files with a simple revert. > > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> I don't remember when I last booted N900 without DT, must have been a couple of years :) Acked-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Sebastian
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