[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] Add Boundary Devices Nitrogen6X boards

[Stefano Babic]

On 11/03/2013 14:18, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de> wrote:
> 
>> As set previously, my position is, since RFC patches were pushed in
>> January, that some kind of complexity can be well managed with SPL
>> instead of with very SOC specific code. However, in the meantime I said
>> explicitely that I was not against the current patchset in the form Eric
>> posted now. I understand this can be seen as a temporary solution, but
>> let's increase the number of users using these boards, and taking into
>> account that some other pending patches can help to switch to SPL.
>>
>> In fact, there also other patchsets that I hope will be merged soon and
>> will make the swicth to SPL easier - I mean Benoit's patches regarding
>> NAND on MX5 and dropping old spl code from some boards.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand the plan:
> 
> Do you mean that you are willing to accept current Eric's series for
> adding nitrogen support into 2013.04, and after this we should work on
> converting it to the SPL mechanism for 2013.07?

IMHO, yes. The long term solution is using SPL, as well as it is already
used in other SOCs. But at the moment, I tend to not block the current
series, taking into account that we have not yet a i.MX6 board with SPL.

Best regards,
Stefano


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