[U-Boot] u-boot on dockstar problem - ** Bad partition 1 **

[devzero at web.de]

Wolfgang,
 
to be honest, it`s not my problem that some people on the net seem to
be on a personal crusade to tell other people how to post to mailinglists 
or how to write email.

My life does not depend on u-boot. I did not only ask for help, but i also
offered help (giving valuable end-user input to make u-boot run better
on pogoplug/dockstar - Mind that dockstar is currently on sale at Atelco for 
Eur 24,90. That is a killer price for 1,2Ghz ARM Kirkwood SoC with 128M) 

If you don`t like me or like my mail style - no problem, i can go away and 
switch to another bootloader or maybe even other hardware platform. 

What I got from you for my postings was nothing but negative. 
I was being accused that I did not this or I did not that. 
In other words, you even told me to be an idiot, as I should go read a 
document how to ask SMART questions. 

So, if this list is also for users, I would recommend to be more tolerant on 
how users write mails!  I`m no C-coder and there are people in this world 
that give not that much attention to make their Ascii look perfect on screen. 

Don`t you think that those two mails from you were a little bit more offensive 
than my laxly dealing with mail formatting was offensive to all the list members 
alltogether ? I don`t even know how to limit chars in my webmailer, and even 
Linus Torvalds is fine with more than 80 chars per line 
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/17/229 )

So, we either can say a friendly "Hello" now, or you may kick me off this list
and scare me away from u-boot for the rest of my life.

Sorry if that have been harsh words now, but i was really pissed and it is
a very long time ago that is got such negative response from a project`s
owner to initial postings on a mailing list. 

If we can be above such things now, i suggest we concentrate on the issue. 
If you`re ok with that, here we go (otherwise: please ignore!):

> You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are
> running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with
> out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known
> in the mainline U-Boot repository.  How should we be able to comment
> on code we don't even know?

Apparently you are right. I did not realize that this is a modified version
( http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/build_uboot.htm ) and apparently the 
changes (add pogoplug/dockstar, seems much LED stuff) have never been sent 
upstream. 

Anyway,the patch at http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/uboot.mtd3.patch
does not seem to poke into the u-boot usb code, so i wonder if the changes
can be source of the problem. I have seen posts from sheevaplug users which
report similar issue, and as it seems, official support for sheevaplug is already
in u-boot. Maybe there is a way to add official support for pogoplug and dockstar, 
as this out-of-tree stuff sucks big....
So, if this is not for the u-boot list, please somebody give an advice on how 
to proceed for resolving this issue.

regards
Roland

ps:
reference to the initial post, unintentionally hijacking another thread:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-September/077489.html



From: "Wolfgang Denk" <wd at denx.de>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:40 AM
To: <devzero at web.de>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] usb: fix usb start problem with SMSC USB hub and Toshiba USB stick

> Dear devzero at web.de,
> 
> In message <899533205.349626.1285022229052.JavaMail.fmail at mwmweb063> you wrote:
>> pardon, that was not my intention, nor was it my intention to infringe list
>>  rules.  so, this is for developers/experts - not for users and bug-reporte
>> rs?
> 
> This list is for ALL discussions about U-Boot: users, bug-reporters,
> developers, etc.
> 
> But we expect that everybody who posts here follows some basic
> Netiquette.
> 
> You don't. For example, Netiquette says to keep your line length below
> some 70 characters or so.
> 
> You don't even after being told.  I asked you explicitly NOT to top
> post / full quote, and pointed you to rules for correct quoting. You
> ignore that.
> 
>> i`m spending more than half of this evening with this issue, trying to find
>>  a solution and trying to provide information for a problem affecting manyr
>> people and which seems to exist in u-boot.
> 
> I also pointed you to a document that explains how to ask smart
> questions, but it seems you ignored this hint as well.
> 
> You completely fail to explain which exact version of U-Boot you are
> running - it seems to be a locally modified one, probably with
> out-of-tree patches to support that Dockstar board which is not known
> in the mainline U-Boot repository.  How should we be able to comment
> on code we don't even know?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
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