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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:30:01 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/19] Create generic board init and move
	ARM and x86 to it
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Dear Simon,

In message <1325054160-24894-1-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org> you wrote:
> This series creates a generic board.c implementation which contains
> the essential functions of the various arch/xxx/lib/board.c files.

I'll be loking into this deeper when I'm back at work (i. e. starting
with week 2 next year), but I'd like to make this comment as early as
possible:

When making such changes, I _strongly_ recommend to use the Power
architecture implementation as reference.  There are a number of
reasons for this, which I don't intend to explain in detail here and
now (lack of time).  But PPC is the most complete, longest living and
most thoroughly designed architecture.  Things that other
architectures aquire only over time (relocation, cache support, FDT
support, multiple busses [I2C, PCI, ...]) have "always" been supported
by PPC.


I fear that unifying any architectures and not including PPC rightr
from the beginning will result in additional efforts later, so please
have a look is this can be changed.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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