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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:24:21 +0800
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/5] nios2: add Altera EP2C35 board
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On 04/01/2010 03:17 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>
> I am strongly against this style of adding any specific nios board to 
> U-BOOT.
>
> 1. I am not convinced that all information from 2c35_cf.h are 
> important for U-BOOT.
> What connection has for example "#define KERNEL_REGION_BASE 0xc0000000"?
> or others.
> +#define PLL_COMPONENT_TYPE altera_avalon_pll
> +#define PLL_COMPONENT_NAME pll
> +#define PLL_BASE 0x1000020
> +#define PLL_SPAN 32
>
> It is the same situation as we solved for Xilinx boards.
> Create generic nios board and then generate only parameters which are 
> necessary for U-BOOT itself.
> For example I am using only one microblaze generic board to cover all 
> microblaze boards.
> Look at Microblaze or ppc405/440 solution. board/xilinx is good start 
> for you.
>
>

Hi Michal,

Thank you very much for the suggestions. Your experiences are invaluable 
to us.

I will trim down the fpga parameter file. I will keep only one board 
configuration to serve as nios2-generic template, and remove other two.

Best regards,
Thomas