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2018-07-19 17:27 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>:
>> Unfortunately: this would effectively block me from improving the
>> support for older davinci boards.
>
> Is there something blocking you from converting the board to device
> tree? This is something i did with a lot of the Marvell boards a few
> years ago. For a while, we had both DT and board setup files. After a
> couple of cycles, we killed off the setup files.
>
>        Andrew

Actually some board are supported both in DT and board files
(da850-evm) right now, but Sekhar wants to keep the support via board
files in the kernel so that's a no go.

Bart