[U-Boot] [PATCH v8] kirkwood: add NAS62x0 board support

Luka Perkov uboot at lukaperkov.net
Sat Jun 2 11:40:13 CEST 2012


Hi Marek,

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:31:46AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Why would you wait for 3.5 ? You can use -next .

I know. I'm busy with other stuff ;)

Regards,
Luka


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