[U-Boot] [PATCH v6] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver

Michal Simek monstr at monstr.eu
Wed Mar 5 19:47:33 CET 2014


Hi Pavel,


2014-03-05 17:13 GMT+01:00 Pavel Machek <pavel at denx.de>:

> Hi!
>
> > Also I expect that you can change all pins for
> uarts/ethernets/spi/i2c/etc
> > that's why there is no golden configuration for socfpga that's why
> > it is better to keep it empty just to compile it.
>
> Well, there are some development boards around... and having u-boot
> able to boot on the devel board by default would be very very useful.
>

I believe you but the point is somewhere else if you can reach it by
universal
target.


>
> > > At same time, these files are located inside board folders. If user
> have
> > > different boards, they will have new set of folders here their own
> > > handoff files. From there, there won't the need to regenerate
> everytime.
> >
> > Please explain me one thing how many users will use this configuration?
> > Especially these ~600 lines?
>
> Pretty much everyone when they test-boot their system...?
>

Really? It means that all development boards/custom boards with socfpga
use the same configuration which seems to me weird.
If yes, then why these files are autogenerated if the same config can be
use for
all boards?

Thanks,
Michal

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