[U-Boot] [PATCH2/2] Sheevaplug: Add Kirkwood gpio support to Sheevaplug

[Prafulla Wadaskar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Kiermaier [mailto:dk-arm-linux at gmx.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:50 PM
> To: Prafulla Wadaskar
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH2/2] Sheevaplug: Add Kirkwood 
> gpio support to Sheevaplug
> 
> Hi Prafulla,
> 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dieter Kiermaier [mailto:dk-arm-linux at gmx.de]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:25 PM
> > > To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
> > > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Prafulla Wadaskar
> > > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH2/2] Sheevaplug: Add Kirkwood gpio 
> > > support to Sheevaplug
> > > 
> > > Hi Jean, hi Prafulla,
> > > 
> > > here the corrected version.
> > > 
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Dieter
> > > 
> > > > On 14:45 Mon 29 Jun     , Dieter Kiermaier wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > patch 2 of 2 which adds Kirkwood GPIO support to Sheevaplug.
> > > > > Any comments are welcome!
> > Hi Dieter
> > Thanks for your efforts
> > That's good, gpio driver is supported for Kirkwood but, 
> Again question 
> > remains the same- Why do you need gpio support on 
> Sheevaplug? Whereas you have no evidence to use it.
> 
> That's a good question :)
> I need gpio support for my own board which will come up the 
> next 2 months.
> So maybe you're right. There is no need for GPIO support on 
> SheevaPlug.
Well.. you better post separate patch for your board that needs to use gpio support.

> On the other hand there are maybe some hackers out there 
> using sheevaplug not only as it is. So maybe there is a need 
> for some GPIO bitbanging?
> At least if you open the case :)
I will post this information on plug forum (http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php).
Also a small how-to doc to uses gpio support for bit bang interface.

> 
> Also many thanks to all of you out there for such a nice boot 
> loader :) Dieter
Thanks to yourself too :-) let's make it further better.

Regards.
Prafulla . .