[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 0/3]Patchset for Ati bios emulator and Ati frambuffer driver

[Jin Zhengxiong-R64188]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 2:56 AM
> To: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 0/3]Patchset for Ati bios 
> emulator and Ati frambuffer driver 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> in message 
> <CC27DED0F8F39E48A7E75FD768688B7A3E97A2 at zch01exm27.fsl.freesca
> le.net> you wrote:
> > 
> > > Please restrict your line length to < 80 characters or so when 
> > > posting, and make sure to read the patch submission rules - see 
> > > http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/Patches
> > 
> > Each of the two patch is a logical part and I think they 
> should not be 
> > split into separate part, I'll try to provide a URL for the 
> two patches.
> 
> Well, ok, but actually this has nothing to do with the line 
> length of your postings on this mailing list, right?
 
Ok, I'll try to fix this next time. And I'm trying to find a place to
put the patch.

> > > Ati bios emulator - Why do we need another emulator? Is 
> the one we 
> > > have in board/MAI/bios_emulator/ not sufficient for your purposes?
> > 
> > Yes, I found there's a bios_emulator in 
> board/MAI/bios_emulator, but 
> > it's board specific and I can not use it directly, actually both of 
> > the emulator come from Scitech, I tried to make it clean and clear 
> > during my porting. On the other side, I tried to compile it for the 
> > MAI board but compile failed.
> > If other board want to use the bios emulator, I suggest 
> moving it out 
> > from the board and make it clean.
> 
> Can you please do that, then? It's the logic consequence.  I  
> do  not want  to  add  another  800  kB of code for a feature 
> that is already present. If cleanup and.or generalization is  
> needed,  then  this  is what  has  to  be done. If you find 
> that your solution is better than the existing one, you have 
> to prove that and replace the old one.

Actually, The BIOS emulator I posted and the BIOS emulator in board/MAI
are both come from SciTech. But as it's under the MAI board,  my
understand is if I want to use it for different platforms, I need to
move it out and try to cleanup it and make it pass compile and make it
work (The BIOS emulator under MAI board is about 6M and I don't know if
some files such as the bat files and win32 directory is useful for
u-boot). 

So I think it can be interpretated as I've moved out and cleanup the
BIOS emulator from MAI board. But I haven't MAI board in hand and can
not test if the board can work normally after remove the bios_emulator.
So I did not send a patch to remove the code in the board/MAI. I can
only test this 'moved out' BIOS emulator on the board in hand such as
85xx,86xx and 7448 board. If I can contact with the maintainer of the
MAI board. Maybe she or he can help to test this.

Thanks
Jason