On 10/25/07, Valentine Barshak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: > > On 10/24/07, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Matt Sealey wrote: > >>> Can we just make sure real quickly that the changing of compatibles > >>> doesn't break existing, not-easily-flashable firmwares? > >> Yeah, I'm not keen on such breakage either... > > > > Add my voice to the chorus. It's okay to change the binding, but make > > sure the old binding is still supported. > > > > Cheers, > > g. > > > > Actually, I thought that changing the DTS stuff for mpc52xx boards would > suffice. Sorry, I was unaware of Efika firmware here. I'll keep old > bindings as well.
Even if that were the case; I'm nervous about breaking compatibility with old device trees. We probably need a formal guideline here. ie. When is it okay to drop compatibility with old dts files? > Does the device tree have "ohci-bigendian" or "ohci-be" compatible > property on Efika? If it doesn't, it can be added during prom_init.c We're already doing a bunch of efika fixups there anyway. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev