In message 200604281103.32689.pantelis@embeddedalley.com you wrote:
It's better to not have *any* way to screw up.
Indeed. I wonder why there are so many :-(
So you vote for keeping duplicated versions of the dts both in U-Boot and in Linux?
I vote for having it in u-boot only. The linux blob will be present only for kernels with a requirement to boot on non-OF firmware.
This will be some boards. SO we would have some boards where the dts is in U-Boot, and some others were it is in the Linux kernel? And if you want to use a board with different boot loaders, then...
...then we have a mess.
Pay the cost in linux kernel size, for the Linux included blob size.
Agreed.
Or use an earlier version of the kernel, with all that this entails.
I think cutting off support for recent kernel versions is the worst thing we could do.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk