U-Boot support for M68K removal

Greg Ungerer gerg at kernel.org
Mon Feb 6 13:02:06 CET 2023


On 6/2/23 18:14, Angelo Dureghello wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 4:55 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 17:22 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> FWIW, m68k is still a very actively maintained architecture in the
>>> Linux kernel and userland with even LLVM and Rust having recently
>>> added support for m68k.
>>>
>>> I also own a Coldfire board myself (not sure which one without
>>> looking), so I can offer to test U-Boot patches in the future.
>>
>> So, I just found my Coldfire board and it's actually a 547x/548x EVB
>> fitted with a 5475 CPU module clocked at 266 MHz.
>>
>> I will get this board set up during the next weeks and I am happy to
>> test any Coldfire kernel patches, and eventually, U-Boot patches if
>> that board is still supported.
>>
> 
> thanks a lot.
> 
> Actually, i am debugging on a 54415 based board, totally dead
> using current master.
> I cannot printf, so using some gpio's for debug.
> Issue seems to happen at first puts, so, something related
> to serial port initialization. Hope to fix this soon.

I wish I had a 54415 based board in my collection. Would make it so
much easier to keep the kernel working on it :-(

Regards
Greg



>>
>> Adrian
>>
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>>   .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> : :' :  Debian Developer
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> 
> 
> Regards,
> angelo
> 


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