[U-Boot] DreamPlug - progress?

Prafulla Wadaskar prafulla at marvell.com
Sun Aug 21 08:53:41 CEST 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de]
> On Behalf Of Jason
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 6:09 AM
> To: Adam Baxter
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] DreamPlug - progress?
> 
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:11:38PM +1000, Adam Baxter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a Globalscale Dreamplug
> > I wish to accomplish the following:
> > * Backup original uboot
> > * Verify original uboot
> > * Flash patched uboot to SPI
> >
> > Any roadblocks? I couldn't confirm, either via this list or looking at
> > commits whether Dreamplug support ever made it back into mainline
> > uboot...
> 
> dreamplug patches have not been accepted into mainline because the
> proper way to do it (which globalscale didn't do in the binary they
> provided) is with a new machine id.  This is already reserved [1].
> U-boot shouldn't use the new mach-id until it is in mainline Linux.
> Linux won't accept new ARM boards unless they are moving towards device
> tree.

Is this something new?

You just need machine-id in mach-types.h to get in dreamplug patches mainlined into u-boot.

I have added earlier machine id through http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/?action=new

Doesn't this work now?

Regards..
Prafulla . .



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