[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 4/6] arm, da850evm: Add an SPL for SPI boot

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On 12/14/2011 02:49 PM, Christian Riesch wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Tom Rini <trini@ti.com
> <mailto:trini@ti.com>> wrote:
>> On 12/14/2011 12:09 PM, Christian Riesch wrote:
>>> I applied the changes that I did in include/configs/da850evm.h before to
>>> da850_am18xxevm.h as well. I expected this to work on my board since the
>>> board I used to test the SPI flash SPL patchset for the da850evm was
>>> actually an AM1808 experimenter's kit.
>>>
>>> Now my SPL reports:
>>>
>>> SF: Unsupported manufacturer 20
>>> failed.
>>>
>>> Manufacturer 0x20 seems to be ST and the main difference between
>>> da850evm.h and da850_am18xxevm.h is the missing #define
>>> CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_STMICRO in da850_am18xxevm.h.
>>>
>>> So my question is: Which boards are supported by da850_am18xxevm.h? I
>>> thought that I probably have an old revision of the board, but I
>>> couldn't find anything regarding SPI flash in LogicPD's PCNs.
>>
>> So, the da850evm is for the OMAP-L138 and da850_am18xxevm is for the
>> AM18xx EVM.  However, the config split was done, I believe, but folks on
>> the L138 side and might not have been tried fully on the am1808.  So
>> since you've got the AM1808 and can test it there, lets add the missing
>> SPI_FLASH define too.  I think my coworker that did a quick non-SPL
>> check of the code the other week also noted SPI wasn't supported.
> 
> Ok, I can do that.
> 
> But then I wonder why a separate .h file for the AM18xx EVM was
> introduced. My AM18xx EVM works just fine with the da850evm.h
> configuration that's currently in mainline u-boot.
> 
> I did a diff between the two:
[snip explanation of how little is actually different]

I agree.  It's on my list to unpack and get my am18xx EVM setup and see
if perhaps we can't just use boards.cfg to build for L138 or AM1808.

-- 
Tom