From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bw0-f10.google.com (mail-bw0-f10.google.com [209.85.218.10]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68141474CC for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:19:34 +1100 (EST) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so20638391bwz.9 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:19:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:18:56 +0100 From: "Leon Woestenberg" To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/83xx: Add PCI-E support for all MPC83xx boards with PCI-E In-Reply-To: <20090105180122.GA12237@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20081229164040.GD8215@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20081230201916.GA20059@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <1F7739C2-930B-49C1-B8FF-679AF1BBAEAE@kernel.crashing.org> <20081231171017.6FCF585AD247@gemini.denx.de> <20090105174645.GA23766@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net> <20090105180122.GA12237@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> Cc: Scott Wood , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Wolfgang Denk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello, On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:46:45AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote: > [...] >> > My statement was to convey that the kernel.org kernel should only >> > worry itself with the denx.de u-boot (w/regards to compatibility). >> >> Why? Unless the BSP u-boots do something insane, I think we should try >> to have the upstream kernel boot on the u-boot that comes on the board >> (it's not nice to require users to reflash unnecessarily). > The u-boot that came with the boards (at least MPC8315E-RDB) is too old for 2.6.25+ kernels: I have run into this earlier: http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06551.html Regards, -- Leon