[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] add TI DA8xx support: Add new directory for da8xx cpu functions

Tom Tom.Rix at windriver.com
Sun Oct 25 02:34:15 CEST 2009


Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
> 
>> Nick Thompson wrote:
>>> Add new directory for da8xx cpu functions.
>>>
>>> Provides initial support for TI OMAP-L1x/DA8xx SoC devices.
>>> See http://www.ti.com
>>>
>>> Provides:
>>> Low level initialisation.
>>> System clock API.
>>> Timer control.
>>> System reset.
>>
>> It looks like this patch is duplicating much of what is already
>> in arm926ejs/davinci.  Unless there is a really good reason
>> for a separate cpu dir, this patch should change to merge
>> with davinci.
> Tom,
> 
> There was a similar discussion in the Linux-Davinci ML when DA8xx was being added. Finally as things stand currently, we re use most of the stuff from DaVinci for DA8xx, i.e DM355,Dm365,DM6467,DM6446 and DA8xx are all considered DaVinci SOC's
> 
> If we do the same thing in U-Boot, then the DA8xx patches submitted will need re organization.

Yes, I agree.

The more code I reviewed side-by-side with the u-boot davinci, the
more this seems moving da8xx into davinci is the way to go.
The big change is to get the memory map in hardware.h

The cleanups that Nick did for the common code should be used.

Tom


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