On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > If there is indeed a sizable following for the device then someone > should figure out how to cope with upstream kernels, either through the > installation of some intermediate bootloader that can talk FDT directly, > or via a shim layer. None of that has to be performed by nor linked > with the kernel binary, nor maintained in the kernel tree. And it's not > even that hard to do: we have precedents on other platforms with crappy > bootloaders where this just works.
For reference I recommend the following threads: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kbuild.devel/10722 http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg249719.html Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
