[U-Boot] [PATCH v8] kirkwood: add NAS62x0 board support
Luka Perkov
uboot at lukaperkov.net
Sat Jun 2 09:13:48 CEST 2012
Hi Michael,
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:03:16PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Machine type
> > + */
> > +#define CONFIG_MACH_TYPE MACH_TYPE_NAS6210
>
> btw i guess this will break in about half a year. because:
> - uboot follows mach-types.h from the kernel
> - the kernel will only keep mach-types for boards which are supported by the
> kernel AND using the old-style machine init, that is no boards with no
> device tree support for booting.
> - no old style machine setups are accepted for kirkwood platforms anymore.
>
> that means at some point of time in the future MACH_TYPE_NAS6210 wont be
> defined anymore ;)
>
> just wanted to letting you know.
I'm aware of that :)
This board is already accepted upstream, for more info look here:
commit f6a26ae7699416d86bea8cb68ce413571e9cab3c
Merge: cdd3a35 48a5765
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue May 22 13:32:53 2012 -0700
Once 3.5 is out we'll patch uboot. Simon is the one that pushed support
for this board upstream using device tree. Thanks Simon.
Luka
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