OMAP4 removal

OMAP4 removal

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi,

to my horror I found out that omap4 support is removed. I have some
code waiting for a brush here for the Epson Moverio BT-200. There is
some support for it in postmarketOS. It has a devicetree in mainline
kernel.
I did not manage to get hold of the vendor u-boot source, so when I
distribute sd card images, I use something more u-boot mainline based.
I have a pandaboard and use it as a known reference.
Is there any chance to have omap4 removal reverted? What is needed?
CONFIG_DM_I2C relatev stuff?

Regards,
Andreas

Re: OMAP4 removal

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Andreas,

> to my horror I found out that omap4 support is removed. I have some
> code waiting for a brush here for the Epson Moverio BT-200. There is
> some support for it in postmarketOS. It has a devicetree in mainline
> kernel.
> I did not manage to get hold of the vendor u-boot source, so when I
> distribute sd card images, I use something more u-boot mainline based.
> I have a pandaboard and use it as a known reference.
> Is there any chance to have omap4 removal reverted? What is needed?
> CONFIG_DM_I2C relatev stuff?

So it was removed back in July [1]. what is needed is someone to
actively maintain the SoC, the DM_I2C pieces are likely the first step
but there will be, likely minor, ongoing work needed. Fixing just one
thing is likely straight forward but it's more about an ongoing,
likely quite small, commitment of helping keep the platform up to date
and ensure it's continues to work.

If you're prepared to do that the first step would be to do a patch
set that basically reverts the removal and updates for any changes to
U-Boot since it was dropped in July, which would be at least be for
the early boot rename (SPL/TPL -> XPL) pieces and the DM_I2C
conversion.

Peter

[1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2024-July/558846.html