[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

Hello Georg

Please make sure this patch is applied:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-May/214017.html

when you test it.


Thanks!

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Georg Schardt <schardt at team-ctech.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yes, we have still some fx12mm  in use and i can try to compile and run
> the newest u-boot in the next few days.
>
> regards
> Georg
>
> Am 12.05.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Ricardo Ribalda Delgado:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have followed doc/README.generic-board  and simply adding
>> CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick.
>>
>> So far it has build with no warnings for:
>>
>> ml507
>> ml507_flash
>> xilinx-ppc440-generic
>> v5fx30teval
>>
>> and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have
>> with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others):
>>
>>
>> Simply adding  CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly
>> As you can see from here:
>>
>>
>> U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15)
>>
>> CPU:   IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67)
>>        32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache
>> DRAM:  256 MiB
>> Flash: 32 MiB
>> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>>
>> U-Boot is up and runnining
>> ml507:/#
>>
>>
>> Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm
>>
>> It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg
>> can give it a try to confirm that this still works.
>>
>>
>> Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to
>> generic board?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>> Hello Michal
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reply
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>>>>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>>>>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
>>>>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
>>>>> removed.
>>>> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
>>>> tools from the last two years does not support ppc.
>>> It is also about SDK where that support was removed.
>>>
>>>> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
>>>> as v5, s6... was on sale.
>>>>
>>>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930
>>> One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the
>>> latest SW.
>>> Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?
>>>
>>>
>>>>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
>>>>> is obsolete from my point of view.
>>>> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
>>>> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
>>>>
>>>> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
>>>>
>>>> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G
>>> ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)
>>>
>>>>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>>>>>> the support?
>>>>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
>>>>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
>>>>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
>>>>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
>>>> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
>>>>
>>>> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.
>>> Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board
>>> support.
>>>
>>>>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>>>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>>>>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
>>>>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
>>>> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.
>>> :-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because
>>> we are not testing it at all.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michal
>>
>>
>



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Ricardo Ribalda