From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (mail-out.m-online.net [212.18.0.10]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67466DE00D for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:32:06 +1000 (EST) To: "Grant Likely" From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: [POWERPC 03/15] [POWERPC] TQM5200 board support Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:48:55 MDT." Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:32:02 +0200 Sender: wd@denx.de Message-Id: <20071008223202.46BB82408C@gemini.denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, tech-denx@semihalf.com, Detlev Zundel , Marian Balakowicz List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message you wrote: > > > > Why don't we fix it in U-Boot, then, and get rid of this in Linux? > > > > Mostly because I haven't gotten to it yet. :-/ > > Actually, it's more than that. I don't want to force users to upgrade > their firmware on the lite5200. Linux boots on it fine now with old > firmware (using cuimage), it should continue to boot. Doing board > specific fixups at Linux setup_arch time to work around > old/buggy/not-quite-what-we-want firmware is reasonable. We must do > this on the Efika too. Maybe there's a way to allow booting with old firmware, but nevertheless providing a technically clean, up to date version of U-Boot for current kernels? My point is that the Lite5200B is a reference design - many people copy the hardware design and use the code as starting point for their own board adaptions. So this port has to be as clean as possible, or we will see the same remarks in nearly every new 5200 patch to come. Please, let's clean this up. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de I'm a programmer: I don't buy software, I write it. -- Tom Christiansen