[U-Boot] [PATCH V6 - Part 3 - 0/2] SPI flash enhancements: allow default bus and chip-selects

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Feb 1 18:00:37 CET 2012


On Wednesday 01 February 2012 06:30:04 Stefano Babic wrote:
> On 31/01/2012 20:14, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > On 01/31/2012 11:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 31 January 2012 12:52:06 Eric Nelson wrote:
> >>> Patch 1 modifies the 'sf' command to allow a default bus and
> >>> chip-select
> >>> 
> >>> to be specified by board headers. This allows a bare 'sf' probe command:
> >>>        U-Boot>  sf probe
> >>> 
> >>> instead of the more cumbersome usage when a GPIO is tacked onto
> >>> the chip-select. Otherwise, this command-line would be needed
> >>> 
> >>> to specify GP3:19 on SabreLite:
> >>>        U-Boot>  sf probe 0x5300
> >>> 
> >>> Patch 2 provides a description of usage and configuration of
> >>> CONFIG_CMD_SF.
> >> 
> >> you can drop these two SF patches from your mx6q series.  i don't want
> >> to keep
> >> checking to see if you've updated them :p.
> > 
> > I figured as much, but I can't really test them without the rest of the
> > series...
> 
> It does not matter - Mike, what do you think if I merge the whole
> patchset into u-boot-imx ? Else the mx6qsabrelite board cannot be built
> until all patches will be merged by Wolfgang.

i don't see why this series depends on the two spi flash patches.  they were 
both "nice to have" patches which only change the default `sf` behavior.  the 
boards will compile & run perfectly fine without them.
-mike
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