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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:50:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] ARM: ep93xx: ts72xx: Add support for BK3 board
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de> wrote:

>
> There is a point where supporting old board files will stand in
> the way and cost a lot in maintenance (like moving drivers our
> of arch/arm, or modernizing misc subsystems). Then moving the
> platform over to device tree should be preferred.

I'm generally more interested in the multiplatform conversion than
the DT conversion, and I think converting this one to multiplatform
isn't actually that hard, and doesn't have a significant risk for
regressions, the main work is to convert the clock handling.

       Arnd