From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schwebel Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:16:35 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-v2 updates In-Reply-To: <20071010085520.GE11231@pengutronix.de> References: <20071010085520.GE11231@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <20071010191635.GX23573@pengutronix.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:55:20AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > There is several new stuff in the V2 tree, so here is an overview about > whats changed: We'll really encourage people to look into that tree, it'ts really amazing stuff. Next week we'll have a Technology Week with the Pengutronix crew (only net, no phone :-) which will probably be used for heavy u-boot-v2 hacking. So any ideas from the community are welcome! > - Cleaned up the tree. Most board supports and currently not supported > architectures and drivers have been removed. Of course it can go back > in once it is working again. This step seemed necessary to see what's > currently expected to be working and what's not. I think this is the only sane maintenance strategy. We want to have a clean tree, so anything which is ready for v2 must be reviewed anyway. > - Blackfin support. Currently tested with a BF561, other Blackfins will > need some adjustments. There's still an issue that the BF randomly hangs when "Uncompressing kernel". Maybe the Analog people have an idea? > - Module support. The module support is mainly the same as in the Linux > kernel. It is possible to add new commands and drivers via modules so > people can extend U-Boot without changing the whole loader. Symbols > are exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL, just like in the kernel. ... which is a very cool feature. It is now possible to write extensions to u-boot without having the old object files around. We'd like to prepare a first numbered snapshot release during the tech week, in order to have a well defined base for people to play with. Robert -- Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Entwicklungszentrum Nord http://www.pengutronix.de