[U-Boot-Users] [Patch 0/9] U-boot-V2: Introduce I2C support for SDP3430

Robert Schwebel r.schwebel at pengutronix.de
Wed Jun 18 20:41:25 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:39:30AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > It does not have i2c support. And IMHO, using kernel like i2c
> > addition in U-Boot v2 is appropriate. Why this is not a bloat U-Boot
> > v2?
>
> If it isn't, then it means that U-Boot V2 will be pretty bloated in
> general.

Please have a look at the code base first and post *then* instead of
speculating.

> Sounds to me like U-Boot V2 is just a repacked Linux kernel. We could
> probably save ourselves a lot of trouble if we just took the DDR and
> CPU register initialization code in U-Boot and moved it to the kernel.

It might be a good opportunity to check the code now ... :-)

rsc
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