[U-Boot-Users] Status of the AVR32 u-boot patches

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf@atmel.com>]

> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> I just noticed Ulf claiming that we (Atmel Norway) have submitted
> patches for AVR32 support. That is not correct as far as I know, and
> I'm the one sitting on the patches. So you can probably stop looking ;)
> 
No, I have been told by someone else in Norway it happend, and this guys was obviously misinformed
I wanted to check if it was true (Notice the "is this correct" question).

> We do intend to do so, though, so the other claim that we're "ignoring
> the main U-boot tree" is not correct either. It's just that we've stuck
> to point releases so far.

More the AT91 group than you...
 
> Now that blackfin has "stolen" our architecture number, I guess it's
> time to get moving. Changing the architecture ID will probably break a
> lot of setups, but I guess it's better to do a clean break now, handle
> the additional support requests, and be done with it.
> 
> I'll start folding and rebasing the patches against the master branch
> next week, so I'll probably have some patches ready for you in a few
> days. What's the best way to split them up? Separate patches for
> everything? Maybe I should combine the arch patch with support for one
> CPU and one board so that it's possible to actually build the result?
> I'll submit the drivers separately anyway.
> 
> Ulf, I appreciate your efforts getting AVR32 support into u-boot. The
> "drivers/atmel" thing looks interesting -- have you consolidated any of
> the drivers yet?

I have put the AT91 memory drivers
* at45.c->at45dbxxx.c
* flash.c->at49bvxxx.c
* nand.c
and the dm9161a.c but since Wolfgang does not like
the idea of distributing things, I'm in between chairs at the moment.
I can send you the source files and then you can include them in your patch.
I guess it does not hurt having source available before use.
You may want to update the files, because today they configure based on different AT91 chips.
Maybe a CONFIGURE_ATMEL ??

Probably, it is a good idea to put most of the Atmel Rousset peripheral drivers in 
an "board/atmel/common" directory as well.

> 
> Haavard


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