[U-Boot] Porting uboot to Broadcom 47xx (MIPS)

[ksi at koi8.net]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm the author of the Linux SSB subsystem, which implements 95% of the
> system
> bootup code for the Broadcom 47xx MIPS architecture.
> 
> I'd like to start porting u-boot to the bcm47xx. (I guess nobody started
> with this already?)

Did I miss something or Broadcom (or Marvell) already started giving out
their datasheets, less for something more useful without 37 NDAs per each
BGA pin?

I don't understand why we accept any code for all those closed platforms
that no one can even get a rudimentary data without all those NDAs into a
GPL-licensed U-Boot? Especially for those companies that make helluva secret
even of mere PHYs, less something more complex...

If it had been up to me I wouldn't've accepted any of such code into U-Boot.

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