linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate DockStars

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Date:	Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:50:12 +0200
From:	Nico Erfurth <ne@...urth.eu>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Eric Cooper <ecc@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ARM: Unify setup for Marvell SheevaPlugs and Seagate
 DockStars

Alexander Holler wrote:

> The first patch merges the setup for Seagate DockStars into the setup
> for Marvell SheevaPlugs and the second one removes the machine type for
> DockStars at all.

That looks fine so far.

> Removing the machine type for DockStar shouldn't be a big problem. Support
> for them is already broken in mainline U-Boot since 2 versions, so changing the
> stuff there is already needed and it shouldn't be a problem to use the same
> machine type as used for SheevaPlugs there.

This sounds like very bad reasoning to me. The Dockstar has a machine-id
assigned, if the bootloader is broken, people should either use a
working version, or fix the current one.

Also, using the memory-size to differ between these two machines sounds
like something thats doomed to fail in the future.

Nico
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