[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] Separate EBV Socrates board from Altera Cyclone 5 board and from Virtual Target

Pavel Machek
2014-05-28T09:56:17Z

Hi!

> > /home/pavel/wagabuibui/u-boot/board/ebv/socfpga/Makefile: No such file
> > or directory
> > make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> > `/home/pavel/wagabuibui/u-boot/board/ebv/socfpga/Makefile'. Stop.
>
> I feared as much, so thats why I asked ;)
>
> > ...and I don't think we want to do board/{altera,ebv} symlink. Are
> > there any other options? Or is "altera" in the boards file simply
> > acceptable?
>
> This is a problem that will turn up in the future even more, so I
> propose to solve it correctly now. It will not be long before we
> want

Well, OTOH it is orthogonal problem to the "board name is shared
between socrates and altera" and "config is shared between altera and
virtual target". And this patch is going to go stale rather quickly.

> to have our own configuration for our MCV module and this will certainly
> be sold by DENX. I think we need an infrastructure to allow for boards
> sold by arbitrary manufacturers all using the Altera chip.
>
> The situation as such is not uncommon, so maybe you can follow examples
> from different CPUs? I.e. how is the imx6 handled on the different base
> boards?

The examples I seen were different: there different board vendors
actually needed different code.

AFAICT, one solution would be to put "-" in that column, and do "git
mv board/altera/ board/socfpga/".

But if we decide to go that way, it should really be separate patch.

Best regards,
Pavel
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