From: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:46:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F515BF1.9030101@boundarydevices.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120302232545.464F212A7F30@gemini.denx.de>
On 03/02/2012 04:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Eric Nelson,
>
> In message<1330728909-12203-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> you wrote:
>> This series of patches is needed to allow main-line U-Boot to be used
>> with Freescale's Linux 2.6.38 non-DT kernel releases.
>>
>> These releases currently require at least the machine type and
>> revision atag entries and are configured to load boot scripts from
>> the ext3 filesystem.
>
> Is this really needed? I feel we should rather focus on current
> mainline kernel code and support that well instead of adding backward
> compatibility complexity for old, obsolete code.
>
I think new code is still being written for 2.6.38, so it may be obsolete,
but not necessarily old.
> People who want to run FSL kernels should be able run FSL's version
> of U-Boot.
>
They certainly can.
These small patches will be a big help to those of us who need to
support both though, and it's not yet clear how long the kernel
transition will take.
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
Regards,
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-02 22:55 [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add CONFIG_REVISION_TAG Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 22:59 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 20:35 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-04 20:59 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 21:04 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-04 21:18 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-04 22:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-04 22:41 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-03 10:26 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add MACH_TYPE_MX6Q_SABRELITE Eric Nelson
2012-03-02 23:00 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-03 10:28 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 22:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: add ext2 support Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 9:36 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-02 23:01 ` [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Marek Vasut
2012-03-02 23:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-02 23:46 ` Eric Nelson [this message]
2012-03-02 23:50 ` Fabio Estevam
2012-03-03 9:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-03 6:35 ` Dirk Behme
2012-03-03 9:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-03 10:43 ` mailander
2012-03-03 11:32 ` Dirk Behme
2012-03-03 13:30 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-04 1:19 ` Troy Kisky
2012-03-04 8:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-07 9:37 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-03-04 11:09 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-04 14:14 ` Igor Grinberg
2012-03-04 19:45 ` [U-Boot] CONFIG_REVISION (was i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels) Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 8:43 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-07 15:53 ` Eric Nelson
2012-03-07 16:32 ` Stefano Babic
2012-03-03 10:33 ` [U-Boot] i.MX6: mx6qsabrelite: allow use with Freescale 2.6.38 kernels Stefano Babic
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