[U-Boot] ARM Pull Request

[Dirk Behme]

Tom wrote:
> Dirk Behme wrote:
>> Peter Tyser wrote:
>>  
>>> On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 19:59 +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> On 09:12 Sun 06 Sep     , Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>>>        
>>>>>> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>>>          
>>>>>>> On 07:37 Sat 05 Sep     , Dirk Behme wrote:
>>>>>>>            
>>>>>>>> Dear Jean-Christophe,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please pull
>>>>>>>>> The following changes since commit 
>>>>>>>>> 3aa8b68d80dbcb6829af60485c1e388b39af793d:
>>>>>>>>> Wolfgang Denk (1):
>>>>>>>>>       Merge branch 'next' of ../next
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> git://git.denx.de/u-boot-arm.git master
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Albin Tonnerre (3):
>>>>>>>>>     at91sam9260/afeb9260: Fix SPI initialization
>>>>>>>>>     Add support for the Calao SBC35-A9G20 board
>>>>>>>>>     Support for the Calao TNY-A9260/TNY-A9G20 boards
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Frederik Kriewitz (1):
>>>>>>>>>     Add support for the DevKit8000 board
>>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>> I'd like to have the omap3_devkit8000.h version of that patch, 
>>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>> this one is fine no need not the omap3_devkit8000 version
>>>>>>>             
>>>>>> Jean-Christophe: In
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-August/059087.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we agreed on omap3_devkit8000.
>>>>>>           
>>>>> in v4 the author prefer it devkit8000 so I respect it
>>>>>         
>>>> You missed v5 and v6, no?
>>>>       
>>> My vote is for keeping the board config file named devkit8000.h - that's
>>> U-Boot's current, standard naming convention and it matches up with the
>>> board name under board/.      
>>
>> And I vote (as agreed like mentioned above) for omap3_devkit8000.h as 
>> this is the current, standard OMAP3 config file naming convention 
>> which matches with all other OMAP3 configs.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>   
> I know i may be muddying this up but..
> The devkit8000 looks a lot like the beagle.
> Have you already thought of just rolling devkit8000 into beagle?
> 
> My opinion on naming is to keep omap3_ prefix consistent.
> People used to building with their favorite omap3_* config should continue.
> For now, new omap3 boards to use the omap3_ prefix.

I agree here, so we are at least 2 ;)

If you really want to change U-Boot's user build interface for OMAP3, 
please remember how many documentation you will break with this. And 
additionally, please remember how many user you will confuse with 
this. At least for BeagleBoard there are already some thousand boards 
out there.

Best regards

Dirk

> If we want to break the config names, we should do it after a release.
> A good time for that will be when the omap4 versions come in and we
> have to figure out how to put them in.
> 
> Tom
> 
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