From: kgene.kim@samsung.com (Kukjin Kim)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:05:48 +0900
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] ARM: EXYNOS: no more support non-DT for EXYNOS SoCs
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On 04/10/13 22:55, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 April 2013, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
>> Hmm, it turns out we are still actively using some boards based on
>> Exynos4210 EVT0 SoCs. And since it seems unlikely the patches from
>> Tomasz [1] adding basic DT support for those will get merged for
>> 3.10, it would be a bit inconvenient to remove the ATAGS support
>> now, leaving Exynos4210 Rev. 0 not supported at all.
>
> I still have hope to get those included.
>
I agree and I asked Tomasz to re-send universal dt patch.

>> Not sure what's others opinion on that, and what would be an advantage
>> of removing non-dt support for Exynos now, rather than in 3.11, vs. any
>> possible inconvenience and regressions this could cause.
>
> A multiplatform kernel will not work on an ATAGS based Exynos platform,
> but I think we can have it both ways and allow either multiplatform
> DT-only or single-platform with both DT and ATAGS in 3.10.
>
I think, if possible, keeping both way would be nice to us.

Thanks.

- Kukjin