From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Simek Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:11:54 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] FDT driver initialization function declaration In-Reply-To: <201207101711.42961.marex@denx.de> References: <4FFC02BD.7060106@monstr.eu> <20120710130331.854362026C4@gemini.denx.de> <4FFC3286.2020407@monstr.eu> <201207101711.42961.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <4FFD192A.3040103@monstr.eu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 07/10/2012 05:11 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Michal Simek, > >> Dear Wolfgang, >> >> On 07/10/2012 03:03 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >>> Dear Michal Simek, >>> >>> In message<4FFC1EF8.9060705@monstr.eu> you wrote: >>>> The hardest part I have identify on microblaze was about u-boot >>>> variables. Because based on information from device-tree you can choose >>>> where variables should be stored and also this memory should be >>>> accessible before u-boot try to read variables. It mean in very early >>>> state. >>> >>> Device initialization before relocation is already hard enough; >>> resources are very limited then. You will add the additional need to >>> have the FDT library available then, too. Not to mention that you >>> need to load the DT blob, too. >>> >>> This will be a lot of added complexity. >> >> Do you have any timeframe for this work? >> Or any expectation when this work should be merged to mainline? > > 6 months, 2 releases ... or so. We booted it as a university project to maximize > the gain. ok. Sounds good. Do you have any repo somewhere? I would like to look at it. Thanks, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng) w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Microblaze U-BOOT custodian