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From: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Update and Cut down mach types
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:58:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAEA026.1010309@compulab.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0554BEF07D437848AF01B9C9B5F0BC5DC365D89D@dlee01.ent.ti.com>

Hi Sandeep, Albert, Wolfgang,

On 04/19/11 15:42, Paulraj, Sandeep wrote:
> Wolfgang, Albert,
>
> Russell King sent some updates to the linux kernel for mach-types.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6f82f4db80189281a8ac42f2e72396accb719b57
>
> He also removed a lot of entries which never made it to mainline.

Well, as I understood from Russell, the main purpose of this "cut down"
is to make "du -s linux/arch/arm" smaller, because there is no real need in
all those boards listed in mach-types.h unless there is a support for them
in mainline Linux kernel.
Nevertheless the real ARM registry remains untouched - meaning that all
board ids remain the same and no board is removed from the registry.

This is the place where U-Boot board support diverges from Linux...

Are we obliged to follow the Linux mach-types.h?
Can't we just adopt Russell's "cut down" script to boards supported by U-Boot?
Or will it harden the mach-types.h future updates?

Have you thought of getting rid of mach-types.h completely?
Making every board define its ARM registry id can work and will
eliminate the need for mach-types.h update every couple of months.

> I have a patch and it is the branch below
>
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-ti.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/update-mach-types

Have you checked that none of the removed boards are in U-Boot tree?
Because if there are some, then their build will be broken...
And have to be fixed by... say a #define MACH_TYPE_* <id>
in a board_config file.

>
> Please review and if it is acceptable to everyone then we should apply this patch to remain in sync with the mainline kernel.

[...]


-- 
Regards,
Igor.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 12:42 [U-Boot] Update and Cut down mach types Paulraj, Sandeep
2011-04-19 13:39 ` Matthias Weißer
2011-04-19 13:45   ` Paulraj, Sandeep
2011-04-20  8:44     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-04-19 14:21   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-19 18:42     ` Matthias Weisser
2011-04-19 18:44     ` Michael Schwingen
2011-04-20  8:15       ` Detlev Zundel
2011-04-20  8:58 ` Igor Grinberg [this message]
2011-04-20 17:15   ` Michael Schwingen
2011-04-20 17:49     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-04-20 19:26       ` Michael Schwingen
2011-04-21 11:39         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-04-26 18:14           ` Michael Schwingen
2011-04-26 19:40             ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 20:38               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-04-26 21:32                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-04-26 21:38                   ` Reinhard Meyer
2011-04-27 10:19                     ` Michael Schwingen
2011-04-28  6:20                       ` Igor Grinberg
2011-04-29  8:58                         ` Detlev Zundel
2011-05-01 10:10                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] arm: omap: innovator: fix compilation error Igor Grinberg
2011-05-17 12:40                             ` Igor Grinberg
2011-05-21 21:40                               ` Paulraj, Sandeep
2011-05-01 10:10                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] arm: omap: innovator: Prepare for mach-types.h changes Igor Grinberg
2011-05-01 20:28                             ` Alessandro Rubini
2011-05-02  7:18                               ` Igor Grinberg
2011-05-03 10:08                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 " Igor Grinberg
2011-05-03 12:29                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-05-03 13:00                                     ` Igor Grinberg
2011-05-04  7:13                                       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 " Igor Grinberg
2011-05-01 10:10                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] arm: at91: ether: " Igor Grinberg
2011-05-01 19:38                             ` Reinhard Meyer
2011-05-02  7:29                               ` Igor Grinberg
2011-05-02 10:09                                 ` Detlev Zundel
2011-05-02 12:49                                   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 " Igor Grinberg
2011-05-16 13:31                                     ` Igor Grinberg
2011-04-27 11:44                     ` [U-Boot] Update and Cut down mach types Detlev Zundel

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