From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:25:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302232545.464F212A7F30@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Dear Eric Nelson,
In message <1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> you wrote:
> This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used
> with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases.
>
> These releases currently require at least the machine type and
> revision atag entries and are configured to load boot scripts from
> the ext3 filesystem.
Is this really needed? I feel we should rather focus on current
mainline kernel code and support that well instead of adding backward
compatibility complexity for old, obsolete code.
People who want to run FSL kernels should be able run FSL's version
of U-Boot.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 22:55 [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add CONFIG_REVISION_TAG Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 22:59 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 20:35 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-04 20:59 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 21:04 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-04 21:18 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 22:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-04 22:41 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-03 10:26 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add MACH_TYPE_MX6Q_SABRELITE Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 23:00 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-03 10:28 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add ext2 support Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 9:36 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 23:01 ` [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Marek Vasut
2012-03-02 23:25 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-03-02 23:46 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 23:50 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-03-03 9:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-03 6:35 ` Dirk Behme
2012-03-03 9:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-03 10:43 ` mailander
2012-03-03 11:32 ` Dirk Behme
2012-03-03 13:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-04 1:19 ` Troy Kisky
2012-03-04 8:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-07 9:37 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-03-04 11:09 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-04 14:14 ` Igor Grinberg
2012-03-04 19:45 ` [U-Boot] CONFIG_REVISION (was i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels) Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 8:43 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-07 15:53 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 16:32 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-03 10:33 ` [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Stefano Babic
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