[U-Boot] NXP QorIQ LS1021A-IoT board support

[york sun]

On 07/29/2016 06:47 AM, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Tapani <tapani at technexion.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:50:56 +0000
>> york sun <york.sun at nxp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/28/2016 10:42 AM, Tim Harvey wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I don't see U-Boot support for the TechNexion designed/built
>>>> LS1021A-IoT. I've got one on my desk and am still muddling through the
>>>> overly-complicated NXP BSP and I haven't found where they are building
>>>> U-Boot from yet or with what patchset.
>>>>
>>>> Is this board supported by perhaps a config I'm not seeing in U-Boot master?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Tim,
>>>
>>> I don't see other LS1021A boards in U-Boot, other than LS1021AQDS and
>>> LS1021ATWR. I don't think NXP can support third-party boards. Did you
>>> get any software from the vendor?
>>>
>>> York
>>
>> York,
>>
>> The LS1021A-IOT-GW is an NXP board.
>> It is designed by NXP and support is NXP responsibility.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> //Tapani
>
> Tapani,
>
> Thanks for the clarification. Too bad your logo is all over the
> (beautiful) enclosure because NXP's support for this board is horrid
> (no board support in mainline uboot or kernel, BSP distributed as a
> rar of two segmented ISO's with a really messy and confusing file
> structure, tarballs of private repos of clones of ancient versions of
> uboot and linux with patches on top). You do have the board on your
> website but as you mentioned there is no support detail there.
>

Tapani,

I never heard of this board. Can you share more details? I can try to 
find out which team is responsible and why it is not supported in 
mainline U-Boot.

York