[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] those series patches for add ben nanonote board

Xiangfu Liu
2010-12-08T15:02:45Z

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Hi All

I just got one email form Ingenic people. the "Peter <jlwei@ingenic.cn>"
doesn't work for Ingenic any more, mean the email address is abandon.
and there are another two ingenic people for contact window.
Daniel <zpxu@ingenic.cn>
ChangWei Jia <cwjia@ingenic.cn>

I have sended those patches to them. should I add
"
Acked-by: Daniel <zpxu@ingenic.cn>
Acked-by: ChangWei Jia <cwjia@ingenic.cn>
"
in next version patch,
(I think this patch v4 still not good enough merge to upstream :)

Please give me some feedback. very thanks.

On 12/08/2010 02:20 PM, Xiangfu Liu wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang
> those patches are for add xburst jz4740 and Ben NanoNote(named qi_lb60) to U-Boot
>
> some info about xburst jz4740:
> the xburst jz4740 is recently added to linux 2.6.36
> and it's support the device Ben NanoNote out of box,
>
> this xburst jz4740 cpu have one feature is Boot From USB, there is a
> small rom in jz4740, but LOW some PIN, the cpu will boot to this small
> rom, then init cpu and USB module, then we can send 8KB bin file to
> the cpu by USB(by using 'xbboot' or 'usbboot'[1]).
>
> which means if your bootloader is borken,(the first few KBs in NAND)
> you can always boot the device from usb, then reflash the nand.
>
> in OpenMoko FreeRunner, there are NOR and NAND. when people broken the
> nand bootloader, it's must boot from NOR, reflash the bootloader back
> when people broken the NAND and NOR, he(she) must reflash by using JTAG
> but in Ben NanoNote, we just need boot from usb. flash the nand again :)
>
> BTW:there are a lot of PMP, Audio device in China use the Xburst cpu,
> but I think they are all base on u-boot 1.1.6. by working on
> Ben NanoNote (http://en.qi-hardware.com) one year, we try to
> update the u-boot to last version and send it to upstream. :)
>
> for more info about Ingenic Xburst JZ4740
> http://www.ingenic.cn/eng/default.aspx
> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Ingenic
>
> ====
> FIXED in [PATCH v3]
> 1. describe what Jz4740 SoC
> 2. remove the ENDIANNESS in config.mk
> 3. don't breaks the 80-charcter-wide rule
> 4. get rid of #if 0
> 5. use proper I/O accessors to access registers.
> 6. remove C++ comments, cleanup code style.
>
> FIXED in [PATCH v4]
> 1. add Entry to MAINTAINERS and boards.cfg
> 2. add ben nanonote(qi_lb60) to Makefile
> 3. tested with CROSS_COMPILE=mips_4KCle- ./MAKEALL mips_el
>

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Best Regards
Xiangfu Liu
http://www.openmobilefree.net
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