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

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 11:26 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10/22/2014 11:19 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 10:35 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Is it particular to "old" kernels as such, or is it more to do with
> > Allwinner SDK (and derived) kernels? Is it worth trying to keep
> > workarounds for such kernels separated from workarounds for old mainline
> > kernels?
> 
> AFAIK the first mainline kernels with sunxi support are recent enough that they
> don't need any workarounds. TBH I don't think differentiating between the 2
> brings us anything.

OK.

Ian.