[U-Boot] [PATCH] RFC: tegra: Avoid using I2C prior to relocation

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/07/2013 10:20 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 11:52 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Tegra recently moved to the new I2C framework, which sets up I2C prior to
>> relocation, and prior to calling i2c_init_board(). This causes a crash on
>> Tegra boards.
>>
>> note:
>>
>> There are many ways to fix this. I believe this is one. It disables i2c_init()
>> until relocation is complete. I have been unable to test it so far due to
>> problems getting my Seaboard to work. I will try another Tegra board, but
>> send this for comment in the meantime.
> 
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> (On Beaver and Dalmore, tested booting to U-Boot command prompt followed
> by "i2c dev 0; i2c probe")
> 
> Note: I believe this is an enormous hack that hacks around the problem
> of dynamic device initialization just not being well thought out
> relative to the restrictions of U-Boot's various boot stages. I'd still
> prefer an outright revert of the broken code.
> 
> In other words, tegra_i2c_init() simply shouldn't be called at the wrong
> time; it shouldn't have to handle being called at the wrong time and
> null itself out when that happens.
> 
> However, if this is what it takes to get U-Boot working again, then
> let's apply it ASAP.

This doesn't seem to have been applied yet. Are you expecting this to go
through the main U-boot Tree, I2C tree, or Tegra tree? I just noticed
that you only CC'd the Tegra maintainer...