[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/16] ARM: remove vpac270 board support

[Marek Vasut]

On Saturday, August 01, 2015 at 06:08:56 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Marek,

Hi!

> On 28 July 2015 at 09:57, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 05:53:10 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> >> $ git describe
> >> >> v2015.07-307-g2647394
> >> >> $ make vpac270_ond_256_defconfig
> >> >> #
> >> >> # configuration written to .config
> >> >> #
> >> >> $ make -s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-
> >> >> ===================== WARNING ======================
> >> >> Please convert this board to generic board.
> >> >> Otherwise it will be removed by the end of 2014.
> >> >> See doc/README.generic-board for further information
> >> >> ====================================================
> >> >> $ ls -l spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> >> >> -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 2828 Jul 28 00:53 spl/u-boot-spl.bin
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> It is over 2KB.
> >> > 
> >> > So the hardware spilt already? Aww :-(
> >> > 
> >> > I wonder, maybe converting this to TPL might be the correct solution ?
> >> 
> >> Maybe, if you could split it into two images.
> > 
> > I think I might need TPL and SPL:
> > 
> > TPL: Load the SDRAM init code into CPU's SRAM from the OneNAND
> > SPL: Load big U-Boot from OneNAND into the main SDRAM
> > 
> > ... or maybe we should just sacrifice the machine in the name of progress
> > and be done with it. I don't know when I might have time to fix it
> > afterall.
> 
> Well it sounds like it is already broken. It worries me that SPL has
> somehow got larger though - any reason for that?

I think the machine was always quite borderline and stuffing the SPL into
it was always a bit hackish. The changes to the SPL probably just exposed
this hackishness.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut