[U-Boot-Users] TI DaVinci merge, was: uboot custodian question
Dirk Behme
dirk.behme at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 2 18:17:54 CEST 2007
Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Ksi,
>
> ksi at koi8.net stated on 8/1/2007 11:39 PM:
>
>>What work? It's been 3 months since I've submitted patches for fully
>>working
>>U-Boot on TMS320DM6446 platform. I do already have some patches to those
>>patches. We do run it for something like 6 months on various boards. What
>>work are you talking about, man?
>>
>>I'm really really angry, nobody seems to care... What else should I do to
>>get the _PERFECTLY WORKING_ port into the main tree? What's the problem?
>
> My apologies on not following up mails in the uboot list.. I was not
> aware of your work.. but I do know that OMAP24xx and OMAP34xx patches
> need a lot of rework.. I could be wrong to imagine that these could
> share some files with Davinci and viceversa... I can see the patch here
> in the ARM queue: http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/PatchStatus (posted on
> 2007-05-08) maybe Peter can comment on his plans of merger..
Let us start to get an overview regarding TI DaVinci patches floating
around. Sorry if anything is wrong or missing, please correct then.
First, I think we should split the discussion for OMAP24xx and
OMAP34xx from DaVinci.
So, looking at DaVinci, I can at least identify three patchsets
floating around, not sure if and what the relationship is between them.
1. (Original?) patch from Ksi:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/27603
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/27604
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/27605
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/28314
I think these are the patches mentioned in
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/PatchStatus
2.Patch from Philip Balister:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/29399
http://www.balister.org/~balister/u-boot-sffsdr.patch
3. Patch from Ivan Tonchev:
http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/davinci-linux-open-source/2007-July/003645.html
http://linux.omap.com/pipermail/davinci-linux-open-source/2007-July/003652.html
I haven't looked at all of these.
A short discussion with Philip Balister showed some basic requirements
for a merge candidate: At least support for TMS320DM6446 based DV-EVM
with default/basic NOR and EMIF configuration. Further, it would be
nice if the initial work is easily extendable to machines beyond the
EVM. May be we need to split the processor stuff off from the board
stuff so that it is easy to add additional boards later.
Opinions?
Best regards
Dirk
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