[U-Boot] [PATCH v6] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver

[Chin Liang See <clsee@altera.com>]

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 19:47 +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> 
> 2014-03-05 17:13 GMT+01:00 Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>:
>         Hi!
>         
>         > Also I expect that you can change all pins for
>         uarts/ethernets/spi/i2c/etc
>         > that's why there is no golden configuration for socfpga
>         that's why
>         > it is better to keep it empty just to compile it.
>         
>         
>         Well, there are some development boards around... and having
>         u-boot
>         able to boot on the devel board by default would be very very
>         useful.
> 
> 
> I believe you but the point is somewhere else if you can reach it by
> universal
> 
> target.
> 
>  
>         
>         > > At same time, these files are located inside board
>         folders. If user have
>         > > different boards, they will have new set of folders here
>         their own
>         > > handoff files. From there, there won't the need to
>         regenerate everytime.
>         >
>         > Please explain me one thing how many users will use this
>         configuration?
>         > Especially these ~600 lines?
>         
>         
>         Pretty much everyone when they test-boot their system...?
> 
> 
> Really? It means that all development boards/custom boards with
> socfpga
> 

I believe you confuse with arch and board. These files are located
inside board. For board/altera/socfpga, its referring to Altera dev kit.
When another vendor, example like Xilinx, fabricated a board with
SOCFPGA chip, then it will have another folder called
board/xilinx/socfpga.


> use the same configuration which seems to me weird.
> 
> If yes, then why these files are autogenerated if the same config can
> be use for
> all boards?
> 
Probably an example will clear your doubt. When the board is fabricated,
the pin mux used will be fixed. You won't need to change it until you
fabricated a new board. 

Hope this info helps.
Thanks

Chin Liang



> Thanks,
> 
> Michal
> 
> 
>