[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 1/3] Add the RapidIO framework for U-Boot

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jan 11 06:40:12 CET 2008


On Jan 10, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Zhang Wei wrote:

>>
>> On Jan 10, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Zhang Wei wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 10, 2008, at 5:38 AM, Zhang Wei wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The patch adds the RapidIO framework into U-Boot. The board
>>>>> configuration
>>>>> can be added into individual rio_init_board() function.
>>>> Some functions
>>>>> about RapidIO can be added later.
>>>>
>>>> can you explain what might get added in the future.  At this
>>>> point all
>>>> this code seems to exist to just do fsl_rio_quirk.
>>>
>>> Now only fsl_rio_quirk. We can add other jobs such as
>> RapidIO network
>>> enumeration in the future.
>>
>> seems like a lot of code until we are at that point.
>
> Right, lots of work :). The roadmap also depends on kernel driver of
> RapidIO.

Sure, I guess my point is that until there is something beyond  
fsl_rio_quirk that would use the framework I don't see why we should  
put it into u-boot.

- k




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