[U-Boot] [PATCH v9 0/31] Create generic board init for ARM, x86, PPC

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri Mar 15 23:23:22 CET 2013


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:46:26AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Simon Glass,
> 
> In message <1363020460-14307-1-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
> > This series creates a generic board init implementation which contains
> > the essential functions of the major arch/xxx/lib/board.c files. It is
> > split into two parts: board_f.c for pre-relocation and board_r.c for
> > post-relocation.
> ...
> > ARM is a relatively large board.c file and one which I can test, therefore
> > I think it is a good target for this series. On the other hand, x86 is
> > relatively small and simple, but different enough that it introduces a
> > few issues to be solved. So I have chosen both ARM and x86 for this series.
> > After a suggestion from Wolfgang I have added PPC also. This is the
> > largest and most feature-full board, so hopefully we have all bases
> > covered in this series. Other archs are mostly a subset of these.
> 
> I did some testing on Power Architecture systems - to be precise:
> 
> CPU		Board
> --------------------------
> MPC860T		TQM860L
> MPC5200		TQM5200S
> PPC405EX	Kilauea
> PPC440EP	Yosemite
> PPC440EX	Sequoia
> PPC440SPe	Katmai
> PPC460EX	Canyonlands
> 
> On all boards I verified at least environment access (printenv,
> saveenv) and network operation (TFTP download); where available also
> PCI.  Everything appears to work fine, no problems noted.
> 
> A well done job, thanks a lot!
> 
> For the whole series:
> 
> Tested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

OK, I've taken http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/sjg/us-board/ but with
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/228080/ for 2/31 and applied this to
u-boot/master now, thanks again!

-- 
Tom
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