[U-Boot] u-boot-socfpga repository

[Chin Liang See]

Dear Wolfgang,

On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 00:37 +0200, ZY - wd wrote:
> Dear Dinh,
> 
> In message <5413667D.50001 at opensource.altera.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Wolfgang's advice is valuable and noted. However, it is in Altera's
> > best interest that we have 1 central gathering point for all our
> > opensource software support.
> 
> Full agreement here.  But I would like to point out that your point of
> view appears to be biased: U-Boot mainline is a community project, and
> the community is very much vendor-independent.  So the question we're
> trying to solve here is not what is optimal for Altera, but what is
> optimal for the community.
> 
> As is, current mainline U-Boot is not really working well on most
> SoCFPGA systems.  

I would disagree on this. U-Boot with basic features is working well on
Altera dev kit. I believe it works well for Pavel too as I recall from
his emails. From his latest watchdog patch, seems he is able to boot to
kernel too.

While for SPL, I would admit its bit slow. But almost all the essential
drivers were there except the SDRAM. This has been dragged for long due
to the legal discussion between GPL and BSD-3. I believe you are part of
this length discussion too :) But this is resolved now after persuading
our legal team. Hopefully we can send out the SDRAM patch soon.

Thanks
Chin Liang