Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:55:03 +0200 | From | Rafał Miłecki <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: bcmbca: update bcm4808 board dts file |
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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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