Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 16 February 2009 13:16:38 Scott Wood wrote: >> This will break compatibility with pre-device-tree kernels. >> >> bd_t is a public interface, albeit a deprecated one. > > the fact that the size can change based on board configs makes it already a > pretty unreliable ABI ...
Sure, that's why it's deprecated. :-) > at any rate, is there a define that can be keyed off of ? CONFIG_HAS_FDT or > some such junk ? then the behavior can be changed to like: > #ifndef CONFIG_HAS_FDT > /* ABI compat junk */ > uchar bi_padding_was_enetaddr[6]; > #endif Why not just leave the bd_t alone, until such a time as we can get rid of it altogether? Note that just because we support booting with device trees doesn't mean we don't also support booting legacy kernels. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
