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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: bcmbca: update bcm4808 board dts file
On 2022-07-12 17:36, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 7/12/22 00:47, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 12/07/2022 04:11, William Zhang wrote:
>>> Update compatible string based on the new bcmbca binding rule
>>> for BCM4908 famliy based boards
>>
>> Typo - family
>>
>> Please explain why breaking the ABI (and users of these DTS_ is
>> acceptable.
>
> This will be largely targeted towards Rafal who supports these kinds
> of devices with an upstream kernel. My understanding is that this is
> OK because we will always ship a DTB matching the Linux kernel, and I
> believe this is true for both the way that William and his group
> support these devices, as well as how OpenWrt, buildroot or other
> build systems envision to support these devices.
>
> Rafal, does that sound about right?

Right - in all cases I'm aware of - Linux gets shipped with DTB files.
So such change won't actually break anything in real world.

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