Proposal to send GSM sysfs patches on stable

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Mon Mar 2 15:18:41 CET 2009


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| Dear Andy,
|
| Andy Green wrote (ao):
|> Otherwise, they will simply propose people keep using U-Boot and not Qi
|> as their "fix". To the extent we pull some extra current until GSM is
|> turned on, Qi is then compatible with old and new kernels. So it's the
|> best path right now AFAICT.
|
| Would it be too inconvenient to have a 'correct' Qi and a
| 'backwards compatible' Qi?

It's not inconvenient if it can choose what to do at runtime, based on a
sign from the U-Boot header that the kernel it's going to run can cope
with the right thing.

I'll sort out a patch in the next hours.

- -Andy
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