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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

  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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