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

Kostya Porotchkin
2017-12-20T16:08:49Z

Hi, Andre,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Heider [mailto:a.heider at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 14:50
> To: Kostya Porotchkin; Stefan Roese
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Nadav Haklai; Igal Liberman
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: arm64: a37xx: add distro boot compability
>
> Hi Kostya,
>
> On 14/12/17 13:21, Kostya Porotchkin wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> Exactly ;)
>
> >> 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.
>
> Alright, and I can see that syncing would be a rather big task.
>
> But instead I was offering the same patches against the Marvell tree,
> without the need for any syncing.
>
> They're now in a pull request I just created on Marvell's public github:
> https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/u-boot-marvell/pull/8
[Konstantin Porotchkin] Thank you, I hope that I or Igal (in CC list) will have some time shortly for merging your changes into our GIT.

Regards
Kosta
>
> Thanks,
> Andre