From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/19] Create generic board init and move ARM and x86 to it
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:13:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPnjgZ32U61w2gOLKRxqTSwciQhvNdD8t1kQKA57HAL4f8XLcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111228173001.EA7541FB59C@gemini.denx.de>
Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> 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.
Yes that has been in the back of my mind. I have had a look through
this but have not started a serious effort on it. There are quite a
few extra bits. My main concern is that I cannot test PPC, but I will
see if I can put together a patch in any case.
Regards,
Simon
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-28 6:35 [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/19] Create generic board init and move ARM and x86 to it Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 01/19] Introduce generic global_data Simon Glass
2011-12-29 7:47 ` Andreas Bießmann
2012-01-07 22:33 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-08 10:48 ` Graeme Russ
2012-01-08 18:13 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-09 11:21 ` Andreas Bießmann
2012-01-09 18:17 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 02/19] Make relocation functions global Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 03/19] Add basic initcall implementation Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 04/19] define CONFIG_SYS_LEGACY_BOARD everywhere Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 05/19] Add generic post-relocation board_r.c Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 06/19] Add generic pre-relocation board_f.c Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 07/19] Add spl load feature Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 08/19] switch ARM over to generic board Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 09/19] arm: Remove unused code in board.c, global_data.h Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 10/19] Add CONFIG_SYS_SYM_OFFSETS to support offset symbols Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 11/19] x86: Remove compiler warning in sc520_timer.c Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 12/19] x86: Remove dead code in eNET Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 13/19] x86: Add processor library and relocation functions Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 14/19] Tidy up asm/generic sections.h to include x86 symbols Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 15/19] Add fields required by x86 to global_data Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 16/19] x86: Change stub example to use asm-generic/sections.h Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 17/19] x86: Add initial memory barrier macros Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:35 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 18/19] Bring in x86 to unified board architecture Simon Glass
2011-12-28 6:36 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 19/19] x86: Remove unused board/global_data code Simon Glass
2011-12-28 17:30 ` [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/19] Create generic board init and move ARM and x86 to it Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-28 18:13 ` Simon Glass [this message]
2011-12-30 15:49 ` Graeme Russ
2011-12-31 0:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-31 2:02 ` Simon Glass
2011-12-31 11:52 ` Graeme Russ
2012-01-01 23:48 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-02 11:26 ` Graeme Russ
2012-01-02 14:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-03 5:33 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-03 8:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-03 9:15 ` Graeme Russ
2012-01-03 15:55 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-03 22:35 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-03 22:52 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-03 5:28 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-01 1:54 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-01 23:47 ` Simon Glass
2012-01-02 6:50 ` Wolfgang Denk
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