[U-Boot] [EXT] Re: arm64: a37xx: add distro boot compability

Kostya Porotchkin
2017-12-14T12:21:39Z

Hi, Andre,

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> From: Andre Heider [mailto:a.heider at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 14:03
> To: Stefan Roese; Kostya Porotchkin
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: [EXT] Re: arm64: a37xx: add distro boot compability
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> On 14/12/17 11:30, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On 14.12.2017 11:26, Andre Heider wrote:
> >> On 14/12/17 11:23, Stefan Roese wrote:
> >>> Hi Andre,
> >>>
> >>> On 14.12.2017 11:17, Andre Heider wrote:
> >>>> On 02/12/17 10:46, Andre Heider wrote:
> >>>>> this small set improves the usability to ease booting distro
> >>>>> shipped kernels. Tested on espressobin with debian's flash-kernel.
> >>>>> I could successfully boot from usb.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone? Bueller?
> >>>
> >>> I'm waiting for Kosta to comment on this (already triggered). So
> >>> please allow us a bit more time.
> >>
> >> Alright, thanks! I just wanted to make sure this isn't falling
> >> through the cracks.
> >
> > No problem. Checking for the status is always possible. My current
> > plan is to push this patch (and other pending Marvell patches) after
> > this upcoming release, as Tom wanted to be a bit more strict with only
> > accepting bug fixes after rc1.
>
> Thanks for the reviews, Konstantin!
[Konstantin Porotchkin] You are welcome!
>
> For the record, I wasn't aiming at this release, next is just fine.
>
> While having the attention of both of you:
> Downstream has diverged quite a bit compared to upstream, is there any
> ongoing work to upstream the missing bits?
[Konstantin Porotchkin] I need to understand the terminology first :-)
The upstream is the DENX release and the downstream is Marvell's 2017.03?

>
> Konstantin, since the discrepancy got pretty big I guess most users are
> currently using a downstream release. Is there any chance to get this
> set in there? I already got these patches against that tree if it helps.
[Konstantin Porotchkin] If my assumption above is right, you are asking when we are planning to sync with the current mainline, right?
Unfortunately this is out of my control. We are planning to do so as soon as we have time for it, but we got pretty busy supporting new SoC devices at this moment.

Regards
Kosta
>
> Thanks,
> Andre