On Monday 16 February 2009 14:00:59 Scott Wood wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
at any rate, is there a define that can be keyed off of ? CONFIG_HAS_FDT or some such junk ? then the behavior can be changed to like: #ifndef CONFIG_HAS_FDT /* ABI compat junk */ uchar bi_padding_was_enetaddr[6]; #endif
Why not just leave the bd_t alone, until such a time as we can get rid of it altogether?
Note that just because we support booting with device trees doesn't mean we don't also support booting legacy kernels.
the name has to go. u-boot no longer uses that field and leaving it in will simply lead to code misusing it creeping it back into the tree. whether you choose to force the warts on everyone is up to you ... i'm not a ppc consumer so i could care less. -mike