[U-Boot] [PATCH] Revert "sunxi: dram: Use divisor P=1 for PLL5"

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Oct 22 10:35:13 CEST 2014


Hi,

On 10/22/2014 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 16:58 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>> We should be doing things right, in mainline.  To bring up a different
>> example, on TI OMAP4 parts at least for a long time in order to use
>> mainline U-Boot on older kernels you had to manually add
>> CONFIG_SOMETHING_OR_ANOTHER to enable additional clocks/mux that the old
>> kernels had incorrectly relied on U-Boot to set.  If we must do strange
>> things to support old and incorrect but in the wild kernels we need to
>> (a) make it opt-in (easier now with Kconfig!) and (b) schedule a removal
>> of the hack all the same.
> 
> A Kconfig option does sound like a reasonable compromise.

Ok, I will look into this, my plan for now is to call it OLD_KERNEL_COMPAT,
so that if we come across more cases like this we've one config option for
them, rather then a ton of small isolated config options.

Regards,

Hans


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