[U-Boot] Fwd: [STATUS] WARNING: huge ARM board removal pending

[U-Boot] Fwd: [STATUS] WARNING: huge ARM board removal pending

[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear Xu, Hong,
> Dear Reinhard,
> 
> We just noticed the warning from Wolfgang Denk about the status of the ARM boards. 

See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/100918
> 
> There're quite a lot of AT91 boards listed. We're going to focus on 

fixing the current issues to let MAKEALL happy. :-)
> 
> I know exactly your great work on AT91 and AVR32. The rework you're 

doing is quite excellent. We of course want to sync with what you have 

done. Could you please describe us the starting point we can begin with? 

Do you have special things which we can help? And so on ...
> 
> Thanks a lot.

If there are SoC specific files to be adapted, they should be adapted
as done in 9260.

Board specific files should be looking like those of at91sam9260-ek.

Remove fixed boards from the global Makefile and add them to boards.cfg.

I'll put the fix for at91sam9260*-ek on u-boot-atmel/master in the next hours,
you can have a look at it - or look at the patch I posted yesterday for it.

Two notes:
1. please limit line length in e-Mails to 80 or less - I had to manually
break your mail to be able to read it.

2. please post to the u-boot mailing list as well

Best Regards,

Reinhard

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[Hong Xu]

Hi Reinhard,

On 06/07/2011 04:18 PM, Reinhard Meyer wrote:
> Dear Xu, Hong,
>> Dear Reinhard,
>>
>> We just noticed the warning from Wolfgang Denk about the status of the ARM boards.
>
> See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/100918
>>
>> There're quite a lot of AT91 boards listed. We're going to focus on
>
> fixing the current issues to let MAKEALL happy. :-)
>>
>> I know exactly your great work on AT91 and AVR32. The rework you're
>
> doing is quite excellent. We of course want to sync with what you have
>
> done. Could you please describe us the starting point we can begin with?
>
> Do you have special things which we can help? And so on ...
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>
> If there are SoC specific files to be adapted, they should be adapted
> as done in 9260.
>
> Board specific files should be looking like those of at91sam9260-ek.
>
> Remove fixed boards from the global Makefile and add them to boards.cfg.
>
> I'll put the fix for at91sam9260*-ek on u-boot-atmel/master in the next hours,
> you can have a look at it - or look at the patch I posted yesterday for it.

OK, very nice. I'm just worried because I can not compile at91sam9260ek 
on u-boot-atmel/master and u-boot-atmel/next 3 hrs ago.

So, we're waiting for your work on sam9260 and take it as a starting 
point for other boards.

> Two notes:
> 1. please limit line length in e-Mails to 80 or less - I had to manually
> break your mail to be able to read it.
>
> 2. please post to the u-boot mailing list as well

No problem.

BR,
Eric

> Best Regards,
>
> Reinhard

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[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear Hong Xu,
>> If there are SoC specific files to be adapted, they should be adapted
>> as done in 9260.
>>
>> Board specific files should be looking like those of at91sam9260-ek.
>>
>> Remove fixed boards from the global Makefile and add them to boards.cfg.
>>
>> I'll put the fix for at91sam9260*-ek on u-boot-atmel/master in the next hours,
>> you can have a look at it - or look at the patch I posted yesterday for it.
> 
> OK, very nice. I'm just worried because I can not compile at91sam9260ek on u-boot-atmel/master and u-boot-atmel/next 3 hrs ago.
> 
> So, we're waiting for your work on sam9260 and take it as a starting point for other boards.

Its now there.

With toolchain ARM-4.5.2 the following warning is given (building top9000_eval_xe_config).
I had no time to look into this. The warning is not due to rework and shows only with newer
toolchains, I think.

*** make u-boot.bin
macb.c: In function ???macb_write_hwaddr???:
macb.c:525:2: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

at91sam9260-ek builds but throws a few more warnings in the dataflash_spi driver.
Please also see my post titled
"[U-Boot] ATMEL atmel_dataflash_spi.c - work at hand - can someone do it ?"

Maybe you can look into that :)

Best Regards,

Reinhard