[U-Boot] RFC [PATCH 5/5 v5] dreamplug: use MACH_TYPE_DREAMPLUG

Jason u-boot at lakedaemon.net
Fri Jul 29 17:25:41 CEST 2011


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:39:02PM -0700, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason [mailto:u-boot at lakedaemon.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:38 AM
> > To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> > Cc: clint at debian.org; wd at denx.de; u-boot at lists.denx.de; Prabhanjan
> > Sarnaik; Ashish Karkare; Siddarth Gore; bdale at gag.com
> > Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH 5/5 v5] dreamplug: use MACH_TYPE_DREAMPLUG
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:40:27AM -0700, Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jason Cooper [mailto:u-boot at lakedaemon.net]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:49 AM
> > > > To: clint at debian.org; wd at denx.de; Prafulla Wadaskar
> > > > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Prabhanjan Sarnaik; Ashish Karkare;
> > Siddarth
> > > > Gore; bdale at gag.com; Jason Cooper
> > > > Subject: RFC [PATCH 5/5 v5] dreamplug: use MACH_TYPE_DREAMPLUG
> > >
> > > Sorry about my related comments in patch 4/5, you can merge this patch
> > > to 4/5 to avoid confusion.
> > 
> > See my comments in my reply to 4/5.  I'd like (if possible) to get this
> > merged before h*ll freezes over (Linux arm tree cleaned up).  So, I'm
> > trying to break the patch up into logical migration pieces.
> > 
> > Since every Dreamplug on the market sets and uses MACH_TYPE_GURUPLUG, I
> > think it's reasonable to use it (hopefully merged into u-boot) until the
> > linux-arm tree gets sorted out and they accept new boards / machids.
> > Then, the last patch can be added.
> > 
> > Am I way off base with that idea?
> 
> So this is gating to provide dreamplug as separate board support or
> anther version for guruplug.

Separate board support.  I'm trying to work around the fact that
GlobalScale _didn't_ request / use a separate machid when they should
have.  They just reused MACH_TYPE_GURUPLUG. :-(

thx,

Jason.


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