Re: [PATCH 0/4] Drop legacy support for omap3517

[Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>]

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:42:20PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> [150113 12:27]:
> > On Tuesday 13 January 2015 09:57:41 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > 
> > > It seems we can now drop omap3517 legacy booting support to get
> > > a bit closer to making all of omap3 boot in device tree only mode.
> > > 
> > > All these boards have at least minimal support for booting with
> > > device tree, and pretty much anything supported with the legacy
> > > board files can be configured also for device tree based booting
> > > if not done already.
> > 
> > Ah, very nice.
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity, what are the remaining showstoppers for
> > the 3430 and 3530 based boards?
> 
> Not much really. We're now printing a warning to get a people to
> upgrade their systems. So with some boards we need to wait a while.
> 
> Then here are the remaining items that I'm aware of:
> 
> - A regression at least on some n900 with appended DTB not booting
>   properly any longer reported by Pali
> 
> - A regression where the legacy ATAGs don't seem to get properly
>   translated by the uncompress code for atag_rev at least reported
>   by Pali
> 
> - A few missing .dts files for devkit8000, omap3logic, omap3stalker,
>   omap3pandora and omap3touchbook
> 
> Pali and Sebastian probably know best of any other remaining
> issues to drop n900 legacy booting.

Apart from the bugs there is only one feature-wise regression when
the system is booted via DT, which is the accelerometer. I will
(re)send patches for that in the next days.

-- Sebastian

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