From: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: bootm.c: drop obsolete Qemu specific bootm implementation
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F1A815.3070600@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358013086-2273-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
Hi Daniel,
> From: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com>
>
> The Qemu specific bootm implementation was intended for a special
> Qemu target in Linux kernel. But this target has been dropped in
> v2.6.25-rc1 by commit 302922e5f6901eb6f29c58539631f71b3d9746b8
>
> Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Date: Tue Jan 29 10:15:02 2008 +0000
>
> [MIPS] Qemu: Remove platform.
>
> The Qemu platform was originally implemented to have an easily supportable
> platform until Qemu reaches a state where it emulates a real world system.
> Since the latest release Qemu is capable of emulating the MIPSsim and
> Malta platforms, so this goal has been reached. The Qemu plaform is also
> rather underfeatured so less useful than a Malta emulation.
>
> Thus the special bootm implementation is obsolete by now and can be
> dropped. The Qemu support in U-Boot should be converted to MIPS Malta
> to support booting of Linux kernels.
After this change, the qemu-mips board support will be broken, so the whole
qemu-mips stuff should be removed with the same change IMHO. Alternatively, this
should be kept until the qemu-malta support is not ready.
-Gabor
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2013-01-12 17:51 [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: bootm.c: drop obsolete Qemu specific bootm implementation daniel.schwierzeck at gmail.com
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