[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/19] Create generic board init and move ARM and x86 to it

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> In message <1325054160-24894-1-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
>> This series creates a generic board.c implementation which contains
>> the essential functions of the various arch/xxx/lib/board.c files.
>
> I'll be loking into this deeper when I'm back at work (i. e. starting
> with week 2 next year), but I'd like to make this comment as early as
> possible:
>
> When making such changes, I _strongly_ recommend to use the Power
> architecture implementation as reference.  There are a number of
> reasons for this, which I don't intend to explain in detail here and
> now (lack of time).  But PPC is the most complete, longest living and
> most thoroughly designed architecture.  Things that other
> architectures aquire only over time (relocation, cache support, FDT
> support, multiple busses [I2C, PCI, ...]) have "always" been supported
> by PPC.
>
>
> I fear that unifying any architectures and not including PPC rightr
> from the beginning will result in additional efforts later, so please
> have a look is this can be changed.
>
> Thanks.

Yes that has been in the back of my mind. I have had a look through
this but have not started a serious effort on it. There are quite a
few extra bits. My main concern is that I cannot test PPC, but I will
see if I can put together a patch in any case.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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