[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Add generic FDT memory bank decoding and gd initialization

[Michal Simek]

On 15.12.2016 08:21, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 14.12.2016 16:00, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>
>>> I am not marketing guy to say how often there are designs with only
>>> different DDR size like Mike's example but in fpga world you are not
>>> buying this chip to have only static part but you want to use fpga part
>>> and for that you need to use design tools. Because every design is
>>> unique you can generate device tree description directly from design
>>> tools which covers your target and this is what I believe people use.
>>
>> Well, I can't speak for everyone...
>>
>> Most people don't want to write (or even compile) a new bootloader for
>> each and every project. For our Miami SOMs, there are already more
>> full-custom carrier boards than evaluation boards. If we had to build a
>> bootloader for each such design, there'd be dozens of them.
>>
>> What we try to do is just use the generic bootloader to get the SOM up
>> and running, and then provide all the project hardware details in the
>> kernel's final devicetree. That includes changing pinmuxing and clocks
>> and stuff, which is easy to do.
> 
> That's nothing against what I have said. Having as much flexibility you
> need is great. We should support several method how to setup stuff and
> it is up to user if this method is suitable for you or not and doing
> these selection via Kconfig is the way we need to go.
> For all these autodetection algorithms you have to be sure that it is
> working fine on your platform based on testing.

Just a note for everybody. V2 patches contain compilation issue for
several boards. I have reported it back to Nathan to fix it.

Here is a log.
https://travis-ci.org/michalsimek-test/u-boot/jobs/184187944

Thanks,
Michal