Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:31:41 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:14:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Andrew Lunn, > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:10 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > I principle, i agree. However, i'm not too sure about mach-orion5x & > > mach-mv78xx0. orion5x has probably been broken since -rc1 was released > > and nobody noticed. In the same time, we got around 5 people > > independently reporting kirkwood was broken. We have not received any > > new boards for orion5x in the time i've been looking at Orion > > platforms. mv78xx0 only has one board which is not a Marvell reference > > design. So im tempted to not spend any effort moving orion5x or > > mv78xx0 to DT unless these actually hinder the effort of moving the > > others to DT. What may make sense is to flatten mv78xx0 and orion5x > > into plat-orion and then just watch the bit-rot happen. > > I'll try to see if I can get people from LaCie to test mach-orion5x as > I have a few contacts there, and I'll contact Marvell to see if they can > still provide Orion-based platforms.
Marvell supplied my one one reference platform. So i can do some testing that the basic infrastructure works.
But the problem with converting to DT is that there is a lot of brainless monkey work needed per supported board, and its very easy to make a typo. So each board converted to DT needs testing. I don't know if we can find testers for all the boards. But should we throw out working boards just because we cannot find somebody to test the DT version?
Andrew
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