[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:25:35PM +0200, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > The tree is based on vanilla U-Boot-1.2.0.
> 
> $ git diff -B -M -C --stat U-Boot-1_2_0..HEAD
> [...]
>  3628 files changed, 50350 insertions(+), 755286 deletions(-)
> 
> Wow. You certainly got rid of some old cruft (hopefully it's _only_ cruft ;-)

I'm sure I broke enough things people need aswell ;)

> 
> $ make ARCH=avr32 CROSS_COMPILE=avr32-linux- menuconfig
> Makefile:394: /Users/hskinnemoen/work/git/U-Boot-NG/arch/avr32/Makefile:
> No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/Users/hskinnemoen/work/git/U-Boot-NG/arch/avr32/Makefile'.  Stop.
> $ ls arch/
> arm     linux   ppc
> 
> Ok, not only old cruft then :-P
> 
> There seems to be a lot of nice stuff in there though -- I hope we'll
> see at least some of it in mainline. It's probably going to take some
> work to get everything split up into nice and small logical steps;
> especially getting all existing architectures and boards moved into
> the new directory structure all at once is probably going to hurt...

It's actually less work than you might think. Especially avr32 seems to
be very small. Just add arch/avr32, add a Makefile and a clocksource
driver, through away most parts of your config.h and you're half way
there. There is a README.porting under Documentation.

> 
> I'd be happy to help porting the avr32 stuff over if/when we decide to
> go for this.
> 
> Btw, I couldn't help but notice there's a "new" cfi flash driver in
> there. How is it different from the existing one?

It's not really a new driver. It's still the old one, but I started to
split the AMD/Intel extensions apart from the driver and make them
independently configurable. I thought doing this would reduce binary
space, but that was not the case, so I stopped working on this.
I just left it there for reference.

Sascha

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