[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/48] ARM: Update mach-types

Jason u-boot at lakedaemon.net
Fri Sep 9 16:23:36 CEST 2011


On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Friday, September 09, 2011 03:16:28 PM Jason wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:57:36PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Friday, September 09, 2011 01:28:15 PM Jason wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:30:01PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > This commit updates the mach-types based on the latest in Linus's
> > > > > head
> > > > 
> > > > This is great, and I'm all for it (since I've been waiting to add
> > > > dreamplug, 3550).  However, vanilla Linus' HEAD [1] only goes up to
> > > > 3494...  Am I missing something?  Which tree do you pull from?
> > > 
> > > I generated it by hand from RMK's machine. It allows you to download
> > > latest version
> > 
> > afaict, rmk tree [2] (no git web that I can see) is also only up to
> > 3494.  There is a vetting process to go from the raw database into the
> > tree.  After all, any idiot can fill in the form and create a new
> > mach-type.  Hell, I did ;-) .  RMK has recently expressed his
> > dissatisfaction with quality of some of entries in the database [3], so
> > I wouldn't copy it blindly.
> 
> I didn't. And I'm well aware of how RMK is unsatisfied (hell ... I was in one of 
> those discussions myself, F- and S- words were flying all around ;-) )
> 
Awesome, so do you know the magic incantation for getting Linus' mach-types
updated? :-)

> > I suspect you're going to have to trim this back to what is contained in
> > Linus' tree.  Which we do need to catch up to, btw.  We have up to 3338.
> 
> Will check this issue later.

Okay, thanks.
> > 
> > thx,
> > 
> > Jason.
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/79016f648872549392d232cd648bd02298c
> > 2d2bb/arch/arm/tools/mach-types [2]
> > http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.git
> > [3] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/128624


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