[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] [PATCH v2 1/2] sunxi: Rename bananapi board as bananapi m1

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

Hi,

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Karsten Merker <merker at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 01:06:54AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> From: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
>>
>> from BPI(BIPAI KEJI LIMITED) products the Bananapi board
>> is named as 'Bananapi M1' and this is the starting
>> bananapi board from M1 series.
>>
>> So rename the board defconfig, dts and suffix 'M1' on
>> model for the same  so-that next sequence on bananapi starts
>> like M1 Plus, M2 and so.on
>
> Hello,
>
> the equivalent change in the kernel has been NACKed by me as with
> the proposed change the installation of a newer kernel would
> break a large number of existing end user systems (which rely on
> the old dts file name and on the old model string).
>
> U-Boot should keep the same dts as the kernel, so this
> effectively means a NACK to this change for u-boot as well.

Do the distros also keep a list of defconfig targets to build
for U-boot?  It seems that way for Debian. I imagine just
changing the defconfig names would be troublesome for the
maintainers.

ChenYu