From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:22:17 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [Question] bardrate both in gd_t and bd_t In-Reply-To: <20140404114250.5C15.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> References: <20140403215135.919D8383408@gemini.denx.de> <20140404114250.5C15.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> Message-ID: <20140404092217.394AB380956@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Masahiro, In message <20140404114250.5C15.AA925319@jp.panasonic.com> you wrote: > > > Correct. In some (really old) kernel versions this was the way to pass > > this information to the kernel, so we neede dit there. > > > > > I suspect the reason it is in global_data is that the bd_t structure > > > doesn't exist until some time after the console is started up, so it > > > wouldn't be possible to do serial output otherwise. > > > > Also correct. > > > > Thanks. > Sadly, it looks like we should keep both of the two. I'm not so sure. As mentioned, this was used in really old kernel versions only. I remember it for the Power archtecture, where only the pre-devicetree kernel versions (i. e. 2.4.x) used this. OK, I know of a number of projeects which are still using such old kernbel versions, but these are also using ancient U-Boot versions. I don't think we have to keep support for ancient kernels in current U-Boot. Eventually we may drop it. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de "Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" - Ronald Reagan