Dear Dirk,
In message 4F51BBA9.4090608@googlemail.com you wrote:
Having Freescale working on these quite old and unclean U-Boot and Kernel versions is a pain. Kernel is an other topic, but with U-Boot, thanks to the very good work of everybody, we are in a good position to get rid of the old Freescale U-Boot, now. And get everybody to work with mainline and create patches against it.
ACK.
So if it helps to apply some backward compatibility to make it easier for everybody, esp. Freescale, to switch to mainline U-Boot, I think we should try it.
Agreed. If these patches were only for backward compatibility I would not complain much. But they are known to introduce forward incompati- bilities with all this MACH_ID stuff, and this is what I would like to avoid.
I think we should make a clear statement that new boards that get added should only support DT based configurations. If really needed, legacy MACH_ID support may be kept out of tree.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk