[U-Boot] [PATCH] i.MX31: fir imx31_phycore to work after Linux reboot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Guennadi Liakhovetski,

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0902061353280.7686 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
> 
> > In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0902061002160.4970 at axis700.grange> you wrote:
> > > Upon power on i.MX31 enables most peripheral clocks, Linux disables the ones
> > 
> > Why does U-Boot do that?
> 
> i.MX31 does that - the CPU, not U-Boot. I.e., this is the default power-on 
> mode.

Yea, but U-Boot performs h/w initialization. So why does it not - like
Linux - set sane defaults (with only the necessary clocks enabled) ?

> > That's another area of bad design. Should we not change U-Boot such
> > that it places the environment in flash?
> 
> Hm, no idea who and why decided to do that. I can only guess that this 
> comes from the original BSPs somewhere, maybe they wanted to ship various 

Well, submit a patch, so Sascha as board maintainer can comment?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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