On Wednesday 31 July 2013 12:12 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxx> [130730 23:09]: >> >> Tony, what do you suggest we do for this series? Since we have just an es1.0 and one board >> at this point for dra7xx, things would be fine even if we do a dt based parsing to identify >> the device, and I am fine with it if thats what we feel is the right way forward. >> For the rest of the DT only platforms (omap4/5/am335x) anyway getting rid of these rev checks >> from the kernel and depending on DT parsing needs to be a separate series anyway and I dont >> plan to address those as part of this series. > > Well I'd say there's no need to drop the hardware revision checks > at this point at least for existing hardware. That's a very minimal > piece of code and there are way bigger issues to tackle. right, makes sense. > > For new SoCs, we could do it based on the compatible flag. If it > helps booting newer hardware with older kernels, then that's a good > reason to do it. Sure, we can have dra7xx use the compatible flag and not add all the rev checks. That said, I would be glad if the latest kernels at least boot on newer hardware let alone older kernels :) But I guess we have bigger issues to tackle before even that happens. Thanks for the quick response. regards, Rajendra > > Regards, > > Tony > -- 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
