On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:53:19PM -0200, Ricardo Salveti wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com wrote:
DTBs shouldn't get broken arbitrarily, so there's no strict need to run the latest and greatest DTB. What prevents the HiKey firmware from providing a minimal but correct DTB for now? That can be updated as time goes on (e.g. with capsule updates).
That should work fine for end users. Developers will be messing with custom bleeding-edge DTBs regardless of distro packaging.
I think this causes more long term pain than the short term pain it solves, and I think that it hides the pain from those who should be feeling it.
I think this is quite useful for development (since there is quite a bit of upstreaming going now, finally), but I also agree that it might be better to just fix/improve our firmware.
If we get the firmware right (by providing the DTB), it will be easier for everyone using hikey with any distro.
Definitely.
Cheers,