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

Eric Nelson eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Mon Mar 11 15:02:57 CET 2013


Thanks Stefano,

On 03/11/2013 06:44 AM, Stefano Babic wrote:
> 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.
>

Then I'll forward a V3 (without get_ram_size()).

Do you want me to restrict the number of configurations to the
"standard" memory configurations?

Please advise,


Eric


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