[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 4/4] ARM: tegra: Add support for nyan board

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Nov 25 17:14:54 CET 2014


On 11/24/2014 04:48 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 24 November 2014 at 10:28, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 11/23/2014 09:12 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Allen Martin <amartin at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> Nyan is a Tegra124 clamshell board that is very similar to venice2, but it
>>> has a different panel, the sdcard cd and wp sense are flipped, and it has
>>> a different revision of the AS3722 PMIC.
>>>
>>> This is the Acer Chromebook 13 CB5-311-T7NN (13.3-inch HD, NVIDIA
>>> Tegra K1, 2GB). The display is not currently supported, so it should
>>> boot on other nyan-based Chromebooks also, but only the device tree for
>>> nyan-big is provided here.
>>
>>
>> As Olof explained it to me, Nyan is a family of boards, of which "Nyan Big"
>> is a particular member. In other words, "Nyan Big" is the CB5. As such, I
>> believe the U-Boot board should be named "Nyan Big" not "Nyan", unless we
>> expect the U-Boot support for work for the various other Nyan family boards;
>> I believe the HP Tegra Chromebooks are also in the Nyan family. Either way
>> though (i.e. even if nyan.c gets shared between the Acer and HP Tegra
>> Chromebooks), I still think we want separate top-level U-Boot board names
>> for the two, so that it's easy for people to build the right DT into their
>> U-Boot binary for example.
>
> What change are you requesting for this patch?

Given Andrew's description of the board naming, I think this patch 
(patch subject/description, filenames, file content) and anything else 
for this board should call it nyan-big not nyan. The Acer Chrombook is 
apparently nyan-big, whereas plain nyan means Norrin.


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