On Thursday 03 May 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:
I don't think that enforcing DT only in multiplatform kernels will speed up porting to DT. As a platform maintainer I am interested in building multiplatform Kernels, but our customers are mostly uninterested in this. They probably disable other platforms anyway to save the binary space.
I was not asking about enabling multiple board files but multiple mach-* directories, which is something that I'm probably more interested in than you are, and the customers you refer to would certainly not do that if they only want to run on one board.
This is really about people who distribute kernels that run on a wide variety of machines across soc vendor boundaries, people like ubuntu or cyanogenmod. The question is really whether you see a reason why they should enable the 25 non-DT board files on your platform, rather than helping out getting DT support for the machines they are interested in?
Arnd