[U-Boot-Users] Problems porting U-boot to custom board

[michael.firth at bt.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: 25 March 2007 21:33
> To: Firth,MJC,Michael,XGH35 R
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Problems porting U-boot to custom board 
> 
> 
> In message 
> <9B595346504D314DA4936056A3E156EB869481 at E03MVX3-UKDY.domain1.s
> ystemhost.net> you wrote:
> >
> > 3) What is the latest recommended version? - I've seen 
> references on 
> > here to V1.2.0, but the latest available from the FTP area is 1.1.6.
> 
> The recommended version is top of tree in git repository.
> 
> And you are wrong, of course U-Boot 1.2.0 is  available  on  the  FTP
> server: ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-1.2.0.tar.bz2
> 
> Where did you look? At the old SourceForge site? Didn't it 
> say in black letters:
> 
> 	NOTE: current source code is available from DENX git
> 	repository and FTP server; see
> 	http://www.denx.de/en/Software/GIT
> 
> ?

Apologies for that, I did think I'd checked the FTP site, but obviously
I hadn't as the file is on there.

I would suggest that the note on the SourceForge site doesn't make it
that clear that SourceForge has been discontinued - I think for a lot of
projects the 'current source code' is in a CVS/GIT repository, but for
many projects that 'current source code' isn't considered stable. It
seems for U-boot that the top of the GIT tree is considered stable,
which makes the situation slightly different. Prepending the note with
"This SourceForge area is no longer being updated - " would clarify
things a lot.

Thanks

Michael