[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] ppc4xx: Overhaul for cmd reginfo

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Sun Oct 4 13:31:06 CEST 2009


Hi Niklaus,

On Friday 02 October 2009 20:12:07 Niklaus Giger wrote:
> The command "reginfo" got an overhaul for the ppc4xx. It dumps all the
> relevant HW configuration registers (address, symbolic name, content).
> This allows to easily detect errors in *.h files and changes in the HW
> configuration.

Thanks.
 
> It is split in the following parts:
> - Cleanup some HW register names:
>   Here you find all the changes in the include directory for new register
>  names and adapting other ones to the names used by AMCC in their manuals,
>  e.g. For 440EPx/GRPPC440EPx/GRX, Revision 1.15 ق€“ September 22, 2008 For
>  PPC405GP Embedded Processor, Revision 1.02 ق€“ March 22, 2006 - Apply new
>  HW register names
>   Modify all existing *.c files to use the new register names
> - Rework cmd reginfo
>   Here the real work done to improve the reginfo command.
> - respect 80-chars per line in ppc*.h files
>   After running checkstyle.pl on the three previous patches I noted that in
>   the *.h files there were a lot of long lines. This patch solves this
>  problem.

A general comment to all your 4 patches. Please put the description here also 
into the patches itself. This patch (0/4) won't be applied, so this 
information is lost.
 
> I tested the changes on my PPC405GPr board HCU4 and PPC440EPx board HCU5.
> 
> Only ran MAKEALL 4xx as I have no other cross-compilers installed.
> 
> The DMA-registers are not dumped for the PPC440.
> 
> I know that I could spend not only many hours but weeks to cleanup all the
> PPC4xx register naming conventions.

Right, this is time consuming. Thanks for your effort so far. Really 
appretiated.
 
Cheers,
Stefan

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