[U-Boot] question about selecting a stable U-Boot source code package

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Aug 7 13:43:41 CEST 2013


Dear TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn,

In message <FE7ADED5C2218B4786C09CD97DC4C49F9EB5AC at exchbj02.viatech.com.bj> you wrote:
>
> >But the latest release. v2013.07 also supports it so why would you got
> >for a version that is already 9 months old?
> 
> TI has a website for a blaze arm product:
> http://omapworld.com/blaze.html
> I download a uboot code from there, then found its code base is
> 2012.10.tar.bz2 .

Well, vendor tress are usually based on old (read: obsolete) versions.
Usually they are OK for a quick evaluation, but not usable for any
real life projects.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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