[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] ARM: Update mach-types

Holger Brunck holger.brunck at keymile.com
Mon Sep 12 16:20:20 CEST 2011


On 09/12/2011 04:14 PM, Stefano Babic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, but then the respective maintainers will get a warning and will be forced to 
>>>> fix their boards in both linux and uboot.
>>>
>>> Maybe the simplest way to catch these boards (if any) is to run MAKEALL
>>> on arm targets with your mach-types file. If no board is broken, we have
>>> not to worry about.
>>>
>>
>> sorry, I didn't follow the whole discussion, but this patch will remove the
>> mach type for our km_kirkwood board.
>>
>> -#define MACH_TYPE_KM_KIRKWOOD          2255
>>
>> This board is supported in u-boot but not mainlined in linux. So how should we
>> handle this?
> 
> Well, I think we cannot check for each update of this file which board
> are dropped - this requires too much effort. The way we currently use
> (Linux is the master of this file, and we update it directly from the
> kernel) is IMHO the right way to get it in sync.
> 

Yes I agree. And I think our KM_KIRKWOOD may be a special case, because in the
past we were present in mainline mach-types, but during a cleanup we were
dropped, because we missed to get the associated board mainlined.

> Maybe the best way, if you want to have your board maintained in u-boot
> but not in kernel (however, why ?) is to define your MACH in the board
> configuration file.
> 

ok I will do this. When is this patch supposed to go in?

regards
Holger



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