[U-Boot] about at91 board in uboot

[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear Lin,
> The following is the status XU Hong is reporting to me on u-boot-atmel/master.  
> I saw it has been silent for 2 days. I don’t know if we could do something to help maintain all the boards.
> I will try to help allocate some of my people to handling missing parts for our EK.

I send a message about 2 days ago, asking that the SoC relevant parts are changed in a manner
consistent with the changes for the 9260, like in
at91sam9260_devices.c, at91sam9260.h, at91sam9260_matrix.h.

Once that is done, and added to u-boot-atmel/master, the board specific
patches should be rebased on that and submitted.

Since nobody did volunteer so far, I was going to edit the SoC specific parts and submit them,
but unfortunately that could take some time (until next week maybe, I was going to start today
with that, but have paid work to finish as well :) )

I am not fond of quick and dirty solutions here,
the boards are not going to be removed with this u-boot release,
but will be after if no progress is seen - but we do have progress here - so no need to panic.

So lets do it in two distinct steps:
1. fix SoCs
2. fix boards

> 9261 soc & ek have been merged to atmel branch.
> 9rl – v3 patches have been pushed out just now and shall be ok.
> 9263 – soc part has been merged into atmel branch. I’m asking the ek part.
> 9g45 -  patches were sent by 3rd party.

The SoC specific changes will/should be based before those patches, and will
replace the current ones.

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Original Message:

Dear Friends,

I have received several different patches reworking

"at91sam*_devices.c"

and

"at91sam9*.h".

Lokking at them, none of them is completely done the way the files for
at91sam9260 are done.

Examples:

9260, 9263: ATMEL_ID_USART0
9261: ATMEL_ID_US0

9260 uses the CONFIG_AT91_GPIO_PULLUP define, the others do not.

9261 still uses the CONFIG_USARTx defines.

Please have a look at at91sam9260 as a reference.

We do need a properly fixed SoC port for 9261, 9263 and the others
before individual board ports can be fixed.

Just because there is a sudden rush to get things fixed for the next release
should NOT tempt us to get in interim versions.

With Best Regards,
Reinhard