[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] TI: TNETV107X EVM initial support

Tom Tom.Rix at windriver.com
Sat Apr 3 20:51:02 CEST 2010


Chemparathy, Cyril wrote:
> Wolfgang,
> 
> [...]
>>>> Is "davinci" correct here?
>>> Yes, this SOC has the exact same controller as on Davinci, and therefore
>>> the NAND driver is reused.
>> But you don't call this a "Davinci"-Board, or do you?
> 
> "Davinci NAND" is a bit of a misnomer since this particular EMIF block is
> commonly used across multiple TI devices.  Unfortunately, this misnomer
> (amongst others) carries forward into the kernel too.  Consequently, if we
> use a different device name here, the mtdparts variable won't be usable as
> a kernel command-line argument.
> 
> Regards
> Cyril.

Cyril,
This is a good reason, let us make sure it is propagated.
Please add this explanation as a comment in the config file.
Tom

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