[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] RFC: generic property fixup mechanism for LIBFDT

Jerry Van Baren gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com
Thu Aug 23 19:28:26 CEST 2007


Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:30:29 +0200
> Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 
>> In message <20070822160915.5cf9e116.kim.phillips at freescale.com> you wrote:
>>> Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren at smiths-aerospace.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> IMO your proposal is not acceptable.  Follow Grant's advice and the 
>>>> current cpu/mpc83xx/cpu.c methodology.
>>> ?  Bartlomiej's first patch followed the 83xx 'methodology', which Grant
>>> commented on, which is what Bartlomiej tried to fix here.  Maybe I
>>> missed something, but anyway, now that the window has closed, we can
>>> arrange to fix libfdt support for all powerpc boards for the next
>>> release.
>> We still accept patches that fix bugs and solve urgent problems,  and
>> if  I  understand  correctly,  Bartek's  patch attempts to fix a real
>> problem.
> 
> maybe I misunderstood then. I just don't want to see code being
> duplicated among two subplatforms (83xx and 52xx) without some stuff
> being refactored into common powerpc areas.
> 
> Kim

I didn't jump into this one because it really is Grant's call, but my 
understanding is this is new 5xxx functionality which would imply it 
goes into the next window.  *Good* functionality, but new.

The refactoring should be an effort across 5xxx and 8[356]xx (and 
possibly 4xx, 82xx, 8xx) platforms and I would love to see it adopted in 
the next window.

gvb




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