From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabor Juhos Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:14:45 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: bootm.c: drop obsolete Qemu specific bootm implementation In-Reply-To: <1358013086-2273-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com> References: <1358013086-2273-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com> Message-ID: <50F1A815.3070600@openwrt.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Daniel, > From: Daniel Schwierzeck > > 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 > 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 Thus the special bootm implementation is obsolete by now and can be 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