Re: [PATCH 3/3] of: Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only

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Hei Leif,

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:04:15AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > In order to deal with an firmware bug on a specific ppc32 platform
>> > (longtrail), early_init_dt_scan_memory() looks for a node called
>> > memory@0 on all platforms. Restrict this quirk to ppc32 kernels only.
>>
>> This breaks backwards compatibilty with old DTSes (at least on ARM/MIPS,
>> where you added the missing property in patches 1 and 2 of the series)?
>
> As Rob said in response to 0/3, the MIPSs would likely not be affected,
> since they embed the DT.
>
> How about the below v2 3/3 to address the ARM platform?

Looks fine to me, thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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