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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] CREDITS for some old code
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:20:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813102034.D3FD5204046@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CDEAAB86-94D1-402D-B6C7-E72A337A281C@jeremya.com>

Dear Jeremy,

In message <CDEAAB86-94D1-402D-B6C7-E72A337A281C@jeremya.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm not usually this pedantic, but about 9 years ago I ported the
> CoLiLo boot loader to the ColdFire MCF5249 platform, and it appears
> as though some of my code has been assimilated into U-Boot. I
> recently came across my comments verbatim in the master branch!

This has nothing to do with pedantism; your request is perfectly
right.

> Please see lines 681-684 and 694-697 of
> arch/m68k/cpu/mcf52x2/cpu_init.c for an example. The "~Jeremy" is
> me...

Indeed.

It appears the respective code was added as commit 8c725b9 "Coldfire
MCF5249 support added" by "stroese" = Stefan Roese.


Stefan, can you please comment and explain where exactly this code has
been derived from?


> It would be nice to have my name added to the CREDITS file if at all possible:
> 
> N: Jeremy C. Andrus
> E: jeremy at jeremya.com
> D: MCF5249 initialization code

Can you please submit a patch for this?  Thanks!


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13  2:55 [U-Boot] CREDITS for some old code Jeremy Andrus
2012-08-13 10:20 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-08-13 11:26   ` Stefan Roese

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