On 01/06/2014 12:40 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 12/20/2013 10:47 PM, Paul Walmsley wrote: >>> >>> On 12/20/2013 08:26 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: >> ... >>>> Note that upstream Linux *only* supports Dalmore A04, and no other >>>> version. If you have a different board revision, it's not expected to >>>> work with upstream. IIRC, Eric Brower volunteered to track down the >>>> correct board revision for people working on upstream. >>> >>> Indeed, that's probably the problem, then >>> >>> It would be good if this was documented somewhere in the upstream kernel >>> tree. >> >> I'll send a patch to document that in the DTS file. >> >>> And even better if the kernel was able to read the Dalmore EEPROM >>> and print out a warning upon kernel boot... >> >> That would be painful, since it'd be board-specific code that isn't >> really coupled with a specific piece of HW for which there's a driver. >> I'd rather avoid that kind of thing. >> > Another option might be for someone to add support for other board revisions, > and create appropriate dts files. We specifically decided not to support other board revisions to reduce the support load. > On a side note, if the board revisions are incompatible to each other, > shouldn't the 'compatible' property be different ? Just wondering ... Yes, if we did end up supporting other board revisions, we'd use different compatible properties to differentiate them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
