[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] MTD update

[William Juul]

On Nov 7, 2007 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>
> Can you please change the subject?  U-Boot has no MTD layer, and your
> patch deals with NAND stuff. So please change the SUbject and
> description to make clear it's all about NAND.
>
> Thanks.

I will change the subject and resubmit.
>
> > This patch is tested on two custom boards with PPC and ARM
> > processors running YAFFS in U-Boot and Linux using gcc-4.1.2
> > cross compilers.
>
> We don't have YAFFS support in U-Boot ???

My intent is to submit a patch for this as well. A YAFFS patch will
build on this patch but is logically distinct so I kept it out for now
as this patch is more than large enough as it is. I should have made
that clear.
>
> > We have set up a git repository were you can pull the patch:
> > http://git.tandberg.com/tandberg/u-boot.git
>
> This is nice, but it is nevertheless mandatory to post the patches
> here on the list for review.

As I mentioned in my previous post, some of the changes are very big
and will not fit under the size-limit unless I split single-file
patches. Stefan Roese kindly suggested that we could set up a git
server and put the changes there. I can of-course send all the small
file-patches to the mailing-list and keep the big changes on the git
server, but since this logically is all one big patch I thought it
would be better to keep the whole change together on the git-server.

As I see it, the patch can be reviewed from the git-server and
comments/snippets can be discussed on the mailing-list. Further, as
partly stated in my post, I consider this to be work in progress, but
I need help from the community to finish this off. I would then think
that I (or the maintainer, if he prefers to run this from a branch in
his git-tree) can incorporate comments and that the maintainer can
pull this into his tree when/if he and the community feels that this
is mature enough.

Best regards
William