[U-Boot] [PATCH] MX5: Add initial support for mx53

Jason Liu liu.h.jason at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 08:58:58 CET 2010


Hi, Stefano,

2010/12/7 Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>:
> On 12/07/2010 03:58 AM, Jason Liu wrote:
>
>>> I know all this crap is for MX51 in the TO1 version, even if I do not
>>> know if there are boards with this first version of the processor.
>>> Probably we must maintain this stuff for compatibility. Really I would
>>> like to remove it completely ;-).
>>
>> Do you mind that I remove it completely here?
>
> Really I do not know. This is clearly a workaround for the first MX.51
> version (TO1), and it makes no sense for actual processor's revision. I
> do not know if there are mx51evk with this revision on board, but if
> there are we should maintain this code for compatibility reason.

OK, Let's keep it.

>
>> The motivation to use " is_soc_type(CPU_TYPE) "is to remove the some
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MX51in this file,
>>  I can change back to the following,
>>
>> + #if defined (MX_CPU_MX51)
>> +               if (is_soc_rev(CHIP_REV_2_0) < 0) {
>> +                                code snip
>> +  }
>> + #endif
>>
>> Is this ok?
>
> I think so. If we were able to do everything on runtime, then we could
> proceed removing all #ifdef stuff. However, we need the #ifdef in the
> header files to select the different internal structures between MX.51
> and MX.53.

OK, I will do the change.


Thanks for the review.

>
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
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