[U-Boot-Users] actual stxxtc board maintainer?

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

>
> On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> I see Dan Malek's name listed as the maintainer.  I'm wondering who  
>> actually cares about this board?
>
> Well, I do care.  :-)  I still use them.
> Pantelis did most of the kernel + u-boot FDT work
> with this board.  It was one of the first boards
> that used FDT properly.
>
>> ask because this board is one of two that define:
>> 	CONFIG_OF_HAS_BD_T
>> 	CONFIG_OF_HAS_UBOOT_ENV
>>
>> However I'm under the believe that these options aren't really used  
>> or need by this board (i know they aren't needed for the other).
>
> I don't know what those mean any more.  There were
> a couple of iterations of passing information with
> nicely formatted records before the FDT turned into
> what it is today.  They may have been used for that.

They were mechanisms to pass the full u-boot environment and bd_t as  
nodes in the device tree.  I'm not aware of any in tree kernel support  
that actually uses this information.

Does the stxxtc use it?

- k