[U-Boot] u-boot-socfpga repository

From: Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] u-boot-socfpga repository
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:43:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410745419.2077.29.camel@clsee-VirtualBox.altera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201409150327.02069.marex@denx.de>

Dear Marex,

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 03:27 +0200, marex at denx.de wrote:
> On Monday, September 15, 2014 at 03:07:11 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> > 
> > On Sun, 2014-09-14 at 12:46 -0400, ZY - trini wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:02:08AM -0500, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> > > > Hi Wolfgang,
> > > > 
> > > > On 9/12/14, 5:51 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > > > Dear Dinh,
> > > > 
> > > > > In message <541373AD.4020902@opensource.altera.com> you wrote:
> > > > Also, I went back and look at the "flurry" of patches for socfpga, and
> > > > I must commend Tom Rini on a fantastic job for applying the patches. I
> > > > was only able to find 1 patch that needed addressing:
> > > > 
> > > > [socfpga: generic board for socfpga] from Pavel Machek
> > > 
> > > Can you test it, and Reviewed-by/Acked-by/Tested-by or something the
> > > patch?  patchwork collects these and that is a big part of our review
> > > and merge process here.
> > 
> > This is actually a big patch which should be split to smaller patch.
> > Nevertheless, I already started reviewing it last week and hopefully can
> > get it reviewed by today.
> 
> I did manage to split that big patch, clean it up and update it to match the 
> latest rocketboards 2013.01.01 code. Please give me a few more days to finish 
> with this and post the result. It's about 50 patches so far. I can send them to 
> you off-list if you want to check them early.
> 

Sure, will hear more from you then. In the mean time, I can provide my
comments on the big patch today so we can speed this up.

> So far, the SPL cannot be built and I still depend on the one generated by 
> Quartus. 

Yup, the missing driver is the SDRAM which is due to legal complication.
I believe its resolved now and will send the first patch soon. Hopefully
this would get the SPL build and running.

> On the other hand , the rest of the U-Boot works well, incl. ethernet 
> and SDMMC . I also fixed L1 and L2 cache issues all over the place and cleaned 
> up the code, so the thing is also much faster now.
> 

Great to hear that. Thanks for verifying that the U-Boot is working too.
Thanks again for your helps! And Pavel plus his ACKs :)

Thanks
Chin Liang