[U-Boot-Users] ppc4xx: Problems running POST on PPC405GPr board

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Niklaus,

in message <200801111806.38846.niklausgiger at gmx.ch> you wrote:
> 
> I am trying to add POST for my PPC405GPr based boards and I am running
> into a few problems:
> 
> a) the post/cpu/ppc4xx/uart.c assumed 4 UARTS. I would rather try
> only as much UARTs as defined by the CPUs. Would a patch like the attached
> one be considered a good solution for this problem?

Nope, that's too ugly.

> b) looking at the log I get
...
> What would be the correct #if to exclude the IVOR<x> part in
> post/cpu/ppc4xx/spr.c, as it make no sense to test these non
> existant registers on a PPC405 processor?

Maybe the test should be skipped on processors that don't have it -
how about testing the PVR?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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