[U-Boot] [ppc4xx] Please pull git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot-ppc4xx.git
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sun Sep 21 22:48:22 CEST 2008
Dear Stefan,
in message <200809170600.21510.sr at denx.de> you wrote:
>
> > AS I understand, this is just a
> > temporary patch including a workaround for aproblem that is not yet
> > understood.
>
> Correct.
>
> > We are not under preassure yet in terms of release schedule.
>
> AMCC wants to ship the new 600MHz boards. This version at least works compared
> to the current version which turns those boards into bricks, since it doesn't
> bootup into the U-Boot prompt. So it definitely is an improvement.
We agree on this. But I would rather wait for a real fix for
mainline. In the meantime, you could keep this workaround in a
separate branch of your ppc4xx repository.
> I was hesitating here too, but I think its good enough to include this patch
> now. It definitely is a temporary fix and I hope that AMCC provides
> a "better", final patch that fixes this problem soon. Problem is that nobody
> knows how long this could take.
I hope AMCC can still make it for the next release - we still have
nearly 3 weeks plus some time for final testing.
> But in the end it's your call. If you reject this patch as is, then I'll
> revert it in my repository.
Please revert it in the master branch. Thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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