[U-Boot] Please pull u-boot-mpc85xx.git

Timur Tabi
2010-08-02T21:11:32Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>> Without this patch, audio support on the P1022DS is completely broken.
>
> We don't have audio support in U-Boot, do we?

But we do have P1022DS board support, and my understanding is that part of
the function of U-Boot is to prepare the board so that it can be used by
Linux, or whatever OS it boots.

Besides, there's tons of hardware that is not supported by U-Boot but must
be initialized by U-Boot anyway.

> Once there was a good old tradition that a driver in an OS makes sure
> to initialize the hardware as it needs it for reliable operation. I
> think I remember to have seen this requested for Linux drivers not so
> long ago.

Well, now we're talking about a very old issue that always raises
disagreement -- exactly what should U-Boot be doing vs. Linux. And this is
something that changes over time. For example, QE pin muxing used to be
done in U-Boot, but now it's done in Linux. Well, except for the QE
features that U-Boot uses. In that case, it's done in U-Boot *and* Linux.