[U-Boot] [PATCH] [RFC] powerpc: re-add bi_ip_addr to bd_t struct

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Anatolij Gustschin,

In message <1346612940-8580-1-git-send-email-agust at denx.de> you wrote:
> Since commit 50a47d0523e8efebe912bef539a77ffd42116451
> (net: punt bd->bi_ip_addr) booting old 2.4.x ppc kernels
> is broken due to changed offsets of the fields in struct bd_t.
> Offsets of the fields after removed bi_ip_addr are wrong,
> causing wrong bus clocks and console baudrate configurations
> and various other issues. Re-add the bi_ip_addr field to preserve
> backward compatibility with older ppc kernels. Setting bi_ip_addr
> in board.c is not really needed, grepping in the 2.4 linux tree
> shows that bi_ip_addr is not accessed there. Adding bi_ip_addr
> to struct bd_t for other arches isn't needed it seems. bd_t is
> not used by other arches in the 2.4 linux tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/u-boot.h |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

Good catch, thanks!  I'll pick this up right now...


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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