[U-Boot] U-Boot and CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_BROKEN_ECC

[Hugo Villeneuve]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:56:40 -0700
David Brownell <david-b at pacbell.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 26 April 2009, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Before I submit a patch to remove it from U-Boot GIT (nothing
> > > > > there enables it, and it will nastify 4-bit support), I
> > > > > thought I'd see if anyone knows exactly what software it was
> > > > > trying to emulate.  ...
> > > >
> > > > maybe add it in the feature-removal-schedule.txt
> > > > will let people time to explain why they need it
> > > 
> > > Hm... I don't think this is needed.
> > > 
> > > Since there are no users of this code in U-Boot, we can as well
> > > remove it without warning.
> 
> That was my thought.  If it were important enough to keep in
> *this* source base, someone would have submitted some board
> that uses it.  It's badly enough broken that I don't know who
> would bother using it, though; anyone trying to use it has some
> kind of (non-Linux?) support nightmare already.
> 
> 
> > no necessarelly the boards Maintainer choose to use the other ECC
> > but part of the U-Boot user may need it.
> > So add it in the removal schedule make sense. We can evenif plan it
> > for the next Release.
> 
> I wouldn't mind doing that.
> 
> 
> > > > After my only request will be to use the same ECC as the
> > > > mainline kernel or if someone explain why he need it add on
> > > > other ECC algo
> 
> Right, mainline does not use that "broken" ECC.  I can't
> figure out who *does* use it, either...

We certainly don't use it for the SFFSDR board.

Hugo V.