Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] ARM: ep93xx: ts72xx: Add support for BK3 board

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 07:50:37 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> There is a point where supporting old board files will stand in
> the way and cost a lot in maintenance (like moving drivers our
> of arch/arm, or modernizing misc subsystems). Then moving the
> platform over to device tree should be preferred.

I'm generally more interested in the multiplatform conversion than
the DT conversion, and I think converting this one to multiplatform
isn't actually that hard, and doesn't have a significant risk for
regressions, the main work is to convert the clock handling.

Arnd