From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthias Fuchs Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:41:57 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Some RFCs about U-Boot's the generic FPGA support In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200708230941.57630.matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Bruce, On Wednesday 22 August 2007 19:09, Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com wrote: > I agree with all of this with the exception of totally removing the bit > mirroring in fpga_loadbitstream(). If this were going in only a single > product or it was being done for the first timeI would be all over that, > however we know for a fact that there's at least one board out in the wild > that relies on that bit mirroring to take place (another un-enlightened HW > engineer no doubt ;) ). Flat out removing the code will break that board > and I'm not inclined to face the wrath of the maintainer. If we can > figure out who depends on that and get them to push the bit mirroring down > to the call back function where it rightfully belongs than I agree remove > the code. Otherwise I think it needs to conditionally stay. there is only one known board (GEN860) out there that uses the FPGA sub system. That's why I put Keith as its maintainer on cc. As Wolfgang stated we should not care about U-Boot ports that not made public and are not part of the U-Boot repository. I will submit patches for two new boards that will use the fpga subsystem as soon as this discussion has calmed down (and I did some more testing). Matthias