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

[Nick Thompson]

On 12/09/11 15:14, Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 04:04 PM, Holger Brunck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 09/12/2011 03:54 PM, Stefano Babic wrote:
>>> On 09/12/2011 03:36 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>> Have you checked that the removed boards are not supported in U-Boot?
>>>> 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.
>
> Maybe the best way, if you want to have your board maintained in u-boot
> but not in kernel (however, why ?)
Maybe a board that uses some other OS?
> is to define your MACH in the board
> configuration file.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano Babic
>
Nick.