Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932339Ab1DFVoL (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:44:11 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:48534 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756334Ab1DFVoI (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:44:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9CDE85.4050007@ahsoftware.de> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:43:33 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicolas Pitre CC: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: Remove machine type dockstar (use sheevaplug instead) References: <1302122121-3652-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <1302122121-3652-3-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 24 On 06.04.2011 23:02, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Alexander Holler wrote: > >> There is no need to have a different machine type for Seagate DockStars. >> Remove it. >> >> Be aware, this patch requires a change in the bootloader to feed the >> same machine type to the kernel as used for Marvell SheevaPlugs. > > This is therefore not a good idea to do this. The original bootloader isn't affected at all, only already modified ones which are using the machine type dockstar. And I don't think this are that many because that machine type was only supported for one or two revisions of U-Boot. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/