[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] Add Boundary Devices Nitrogen6X boards

Stefano Babic
2013-03-11T14:30:38Z

On 11/03/2013 15:02, Eric Nelson wrote:
> Thanks Stefano,
>
> On 03/11/2013 06:44 AM, Stefano Babic wrote:
>> On 11/03/2013 14:18, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>> Hi Stefano,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As set previously, my position is, since RFC patches were pushed in
>>>> January, that some kind of complexity can be well managed with SPL
>>>> instead of with very SOC specific code. However, in the meantime I said
>>>> explicitely that I was not against the current patchset in the form
>>>> Eric
>>>> posted now. I understand this can be seen as a temporary solution, but
>>>> let's increase the number of users using these boards, and taking into
>>>> account that some other pending patches can help to switch to SPL.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, there also other patchsets that I hope will be merged soon and
>>>> will make the swicth to SPL easier - I mean Benoit's patches regarding
>>>> NAND on MX5 and dropping old spl code from some boards.
>>>
>>> Just to make sure I understand the plan:
>>>
>>> Do you mean that you are willing to accept current Eric's series for
>>> adding nitrogen support into 2013.04, and after this we should work on
>>> converting it to the SPL mechanism for 2013.07?
>>
>> IMHO, yes. The long term solution is using SPL, as well as it is already
>> used in other SOCs. But at the moment, I tend to not block the current
>> series, taking into account that we have not yet a i.MX6 board with SPL.
>>
>
> Then I'll forward a V3 (without get_ram_size()).
>
> Do you want me to restrict the number of configurations to the
> "standard" memory configurations?

Well, this could avoid that we add now a lot of files with the hope that
later they will be cleanued up, and then this does not happen - and
further configurations will be added later after switching to SPL.

Best regards,
Stefano

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