On 03/02/2012 04:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Eric Nelson,
In message1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com you wrote:
This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases.
These releases currently require at least the machine type and revision atag entries and are configured to load boot scripts from the ext3 filesystem.
Is this really needed? I feel we should rather focus on current mainline kernel code and support that well instead of adding backward compatibility complexity for old, obsolete code.
I think new code is still being written for 2.6.38, so it may be obsolete, but not necessarily old.
People who want to run FSL kernels should be able run FSL's version of U-Boot.
They certainly can.
These small patches will be a big help to those of us who need to support both though, and it's not yet clear how long the kernel transition will take.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Regards,
Eric