On 06/26/2013 05:15 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 04:22:29PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote: >> On 06/25/2013 03:57 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: >>> Just to confirm, my problems with mainline were with appended DTB also. >>> Separate DTB and zImage work fine (at least using u-boot v2013.04.) >>> >>> That being said, appended DTB should still work, so there's a bug hiding >>> someplace that needs to be found fixed. >> >> Since we've narrowed down what the problem is, someone can bisect it >> now, yeah. >> >>> Can you guys update your tests to test appended DTB also? >> >> What is the official position on appending DTBs? > > If a platform goes from being able to boot without a DTB to requiring > a DTB, we must continue to support booting on that platform in some > manner otherwise it is a regression. > > And no, I don't term upgrading uboot as an acceptable regression fix. > So if appended DTB doesn't work, that needs fixing before the non-DTB > support for a platform is removed, otherwise we _will_ have a regression. am335x never had a board file in mainline, so it's always required a DTB. Now, I assume you're still saying that whatever software, except for the kernel of course, shipped on the SD card, has to be supported for forever by the kernel, right? -- Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
