[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: add machine ID for CloudBox

Simon Guinot simon.guinot at sequanux.org
Mon Jul 1 12:01:58 CEST 2013


On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:30:01AM +0200, Frédéric Leroy wrote:
> 
> Le 01/07/2013 00:53, Simon Guinot a écrit :
> > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Frédéric Leroy wrote:
> > > CloudBox device is device tree compliant, but older LaCie kernel uses
> > > machine ID method to boot.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Frédéric Leroy <fredo at starox.org>
> > > [...]
> > > +# define machine_cloudbox()    (0)
> > > +#endif
> >
> > Hi Fred,
> >
> > I think you can't update this file directly. Pulling the Linux mach-types
> > file is the ARM maintainer job.
> >
> > Note that for the CloudBox board, the mach-types entry has been removed
> > because not needed by Linux. The Linux mainline support is only based on
> > DT. I had the same issue with the ns2 lite and mini. At the time, I have
> > been told to include the machine ID in the board header:
> > http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=134694402011372&w=2
> >
> > Looks in configs/lacie_kw.h and grep for "missing in mach-types.h".
> 
> There is a doublon for netspace_lite_v2 :
> $ git grep MACH_TYPE_NETSPACE_
> arch/arm/include/asm/mach-types.h:#define MACH_TYPE_NETSPACE_LITE_V2    
> 2983

This one will probably disappear soon because the Linux support for this
board is only based on DT...

> [...]
> include/configs/lacie_kw.h:#define MACH_TYPE_NETSPACE_LITE_V2   2983 /*
> missing in mach-types.h */
> 
> > Besides, I don't understand why do you need a separate patch to add the
> > legacy boot support.
> 
> Partly because I added CloudBox without it and it seems logical to add
> it after,
> partly because I was not sure of the change of mach_types.h :)
> 
> I am not at ease with sending patch to the ML and with patchwork.
> How should I send the fix ?
> A new v3 patch including all but " lacie_kw: sort #ifdef lists by
> CONFIG_ identifiers"
> and "LaCie/common: Fix cloudbox ethernet leds",
> or just a v3 of "arm: add machine ID for CloudBox" ?

I think that you must resend the whole patch series even if you keep
some patches unchanged.

Regards,

Simon
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