[U-Boot] Announcement -- Upstreaming of U-Boot support for Broadcom router devices

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 12:38:42PM -0700, Joel Peshkin wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
>    Up to now, there has been limited 3rd party support for Broadcom's 63xx
> and 68xx devices in U-Boot.   At this point, we plan to introduce
> vendor-supported U-Boot to all of the ARM-based  BCM63XX and BCM68XX
> devices as well as some additional family members.  These devices can be
> broadly considered as the devices used in DSL and PON routers as well as in
> retail and enterprise wireless access points.
> 
>    We are doing this in coordination with some of our partners who have
> made previous contributions.   To avoid namespace collisions,  we plan to
> place device-specific files under mach-bcmbca/.   Generally, rather than
> add support for specific boards, we will add support for specific devices
> and leave it up to configuration and the DTB selected at runtime to
> distinguish among numerous boards supported by the same build.  There are
> also a few generally useful features we hope to contribute.
> 
>    Several team members at Broadcom will be making contributions in this
> effort.  We are a bit light on U-Boot development experience, so feedback
> and advice will be appreciated.  We will begin distinct threads on this
> list for specific related topics.

I'm glad to hear this and look forward to these contributions!

-- 
Tom
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