From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Multiple device support -- sorry state :(
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:19:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DCF8B7.8020904@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64ksi.0904081105100.20899@home-gw.koi8.net>
ksi at koi8.net wrote:
> OK, this is _NOT_ just multiple I2C adapters... The entire thing is
> fundamentally broken.
>
> One supposed to have _THE_ device and only this device is somehow supported.
>
> Now it is USB. Each and every USB driver exports the same set of functions,
> submit_XXX_msg(...) That means there can be one and only one USB device in
> the system.
[snip the badly scorched spot ;-)]
> USB keyboard is another grand kludge deserving its own chapter... As of now
> one can only switch to it from command line because USB is not even
> initialized until do_usb() from cmd_usb.c is called... What if we do NOT
> have a serial console at all?
Dumb question because I have not looked seriously at the v2 fork of
u-boot: how does the v2 fork handle this? Better? Since the v2 fork
uses (or is close to) the linux driver model, I would expect it to be
better.
Best regards,
gvb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 19:00 [U-Boot] Multiple device support -- sorry state :( ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 19:19 ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
2009-04-08 19:25 ` ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 20:03 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-04-08 20:18 ` ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 20:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-04-08 21:08 ` ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 21:25 ` ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 21:34 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-04-08 21:58 ` ksi at koi8.net
2009-04-08 20:02 ` Robert Schwebel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=49DCF8B7.8020904@ge.com \
--to=gerald.vanbaren@ge.com \
--cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.