[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 2/3] arm/davinci: spl - boot device selection

[Mikhail Kshevetskiy]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:08:07 -0700
Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:

> On 07/09/2012 12:57 PM, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:41:06 -0700
> > Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 07/09/2012 11:53 AM, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote:
> >>> This patch allow us to have a universal spl that detects a boot
> >>> device and select a corresponding boot algorithm for main u-boot part
> >>> (SOC_DA8XX only)
> >>>
> >>> This patch create copy copy of drivers/mtd/nand/nand_spl_load.c and
> >>> drivers/mtd/spi/spi_spl_load.c for the following reasons:
> >>>  * avoid jump to main u-boot code just after its loading (required
> >>>    for the next patch: spl - add compressed u-boot image support)
> >>>  * makes a structure similar to omap3 sources
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> I guess I wasn't clear enough when I asked the series to be split.  I
> >> want to see this portion turned into:
> >> a) Move omap-common spl bits to arch/arm/lib/
> >> b) davinci converted (and as needed, omap3/4/am33xx converted) to be
> >> able to use the same code.
> >>
> >> We shouldn't introduce a new spl_mmc.c for example, we should modify the
> >> davinci structure to be able to re-use the same spl_mmc.c code to
> >> load/verify and let the next step, as needed happen.  I want to see
> >> "omap" be able to re-use SPI (since am33xx can do it too, and I've
> >> kludged the davinci stuff before) and potentially be able to re-use for
> >> example the gunzip support.  This I think is the easy set of steps to
> >> being able to reuse this fairly common SPL logic outside of not just TI
> >> parts but anyone else that wants it.
> > 
> > Ok, I'll take this task. Unfortunately I have no too much free time for this
> > job (summer, parents visit, new job and so on), so it may take a month or
> > so.
> 
> OK, thanks.
> 
> > What about other patches?
> 
> The ddr/uart ones should make their way in soon and I've assigned the
> SPI ones to the custodian in patchwork.
> 
> -- 
> Tom

Thanks!

Mikhail