[U-Boot] Please pull u-boot-mpc85xx.git
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Mon Aug 2 23:11:32 CEST 2010
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Without this patch, audio support on the P1022DS is completely broken.
>
> We don't have audio support in U-Boot, do we?
But we do have P1022DS board support, and my understanding is that part of
the function of U-Boot is to prepare the board so that it can be used by
Linux, or whatever OS it boots.
Besides, there's tons of hardware that is not supported by U-Boot but must
be initialized by U-Boot anyway.
> Once there was a good old tradition that a driver in an OS makes sure
> to initialize the hardware as it needs it for reliable operation. I
> think I remember to have seen this requested for Linux drivers not so
> long ago.
Well, now we're talking about a very old issue that always raises
disagreement -- exactly what should U-Boot be doing vs. Linux. And this is
something that changes over time. For example, QE pin muxing used to be
done in U-Boot, but now it's done in Linux. Well, except for the QE
features that U-Boot uses. In that case, it's done in U-Boot *and* Linux.
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