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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
@ 2015-05-09 16:24 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-11  7:11 ` Michal Simek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado @ 2015-05-09 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hello Michal and Stefan

Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.

The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
the support?

There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine

The xilinx git tree still supports this boards,  will you also remove
support there?


Regards!

-- 
Ricardo Ribalda

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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-09 16:24 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
@ 2015-05-11  7:11 ` Michal Simek
  2015-05-11  7:34   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Simek @ 2015-05-11  7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hi,

On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Michal and Stefan
> 
> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.

I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
removed.
There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
is obsolete from my point of view.

> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
> the support?

Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.

> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine

I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.

> The xilinx git tree still supports this boards,  will you also remove
> support there?

I am following mainline. It means removing board in mainline is
resulting removing the board in xilinx trees.

Thanks,
Michal

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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-11  7:11 ` Michal Simek
@ 2015-05-11  7:34   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-11 12:10     ` Tom Rini
  2015-05-11 13:45     ` Michal Simek
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado @ 2015-05-11  7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hello Michal

Thanks for your reply

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>
>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>
> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
> removed.

Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
tools from the last two years does not support ppc.

I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
as v5, s6... was on sale.

http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930

> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
> is obsolete from my point of view.

We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)

Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available

http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G

>
>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>> the support?
>
> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.

Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.

If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.


>
>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>
> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.

Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.



Regards!

-- 
Ricardo Ribalda

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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-11  7:34   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
@ 2015-05-11 12:10     ` Tom Rini
  2015-05-11 13:45     ` Michal Simek
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tom Rini @ 2015-05-11 12:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:34:24AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Michal
> 
> Thanks for your reply
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
[snip]
> >> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
> >> the support?
> >
> > Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
> > will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
> > feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
> > because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
> 
> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
> 
> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.

I will wait to see if you (or someone else) wants to step up and
maintain it.

-- 
Tom
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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-11  7:34   ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-11 12:10     ` Tom Rini
@ 2015-05-11 13:45     ` Michal Simek
  2015-05-12 14:19       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Michal Simek @ 2015-05-11 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hi,

On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Michal
> 
> Thanks for your reply
> 
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>>
>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>>
>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
>> removed.
> 
> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
> tools from the last two years does not support ppc.

It is also about SDK where that support was removed.

> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
> as v5, s6... was on sale.
> 
> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930

One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the
latest SW.
Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?


>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
>> is obsolete from my point of view.
> 
> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
> 
> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
> 
> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G

ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)

>>
>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>>> the support?
>>
>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
> 
> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
> 
> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.

Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board
support.

>>
>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>>
>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
> 
> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.

:-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because
we are not testing it at all.

Thanks,
Michal

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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-11 13:45     ` Michal Simek
@ 2015-05-12 14:19       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-12 14:27         ` Georg Schardt
  2015-05-12 15:07         ` Tom Rini
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado @ 2015-05-12 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hello

I have followed doc/README.generic-board  and simply adding
CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick.

So far it has build with no warnings for:

ml507
ml507_flash
xilinx-ppc440-generic
v5fx30teval

and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have
with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others):


Simply adding  CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly
As you can see from here:


U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15)

CPU:   IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67)
       32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache
DRAM:  256 MiB
Flash: 32 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

U-Boot is up and runnining
ml507:/#


Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm

It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg
can give it a try to confirm that this still works.


Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to
generic board?


Thanks

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>> Hello Michal
>>
>> Thanks for your reply
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>>>
>>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>>>
>>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
>>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
>>> removed.
>>
>> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
>> tools from the last two years does not support ppc.
>
> It is also about SDK where that support was removed.
>
>> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
>> as v5, s6... was on sale.
>>
>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930
>
> One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the
> latest SW.
> Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?
>
>
>>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
>>> is obsolete from my point of view.
>>
>> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
>> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
>>
>> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
>>
>> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G
>
> ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)
>
>>>
>>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>>>> the support?
>>>
>>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
>>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
>>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
>>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
>>
>> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
>>
>> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.
>
> Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board
> support.
>
>>>
>>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>>>
>>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
>>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
>>
>> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.
>
> :-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because
> we are not testing it at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Michal



-- 
Ricardo Ribalda

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-12 14:19       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
@ 2015-05-12 14:27         ` Georg Schardt
  2015-05-12 14:31           ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-12 15:07         ` Tom Rini
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Georg Schardt @ 2015-05-12 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hello,

yes, we have still some fx12mm  in use and i can try to compile and run
the newest u-boot in the next few days.

regards
Georg

Am 12.05.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Ricardo Ribalda Delgado:
> Hello
>
> I have followed doc/README.generic-board  and simply adding
> CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick.
>
> So far it has build with no warnings for:
>
> ml507
> ml507_flash
> xilinx-ppc440-generic
> v5fx30teval
>
> and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have
> with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others):
>
>
> Simply adding  CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly
> As you can see from here:
>
>
> U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15)
>
> CPU:   IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67)
>        32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache
> DRAM:  256 MiB
> Flash: 32 MiB
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
> U-Boot is up and runnining
> ml507:/#
>
>
> Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm
>
> It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg
> can give it a try to confirm that this still works.
>
>
> Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to
> generic board?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>> Hello Michal
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>>>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>>>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
>>>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
>>>> removed.
>>> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
>>> tools from the last two years does not support ppc.
>> It is also about SDK where that support was removed.
>>
>>> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
>>> as v5, s6... was on sale.
>>>
>>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930
>> One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the
>> latest SW.
>> Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?
>>
>>
>>>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
>>>> is obsolete from my point of view.
>>> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
>>> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
>>>
>>> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
>>>
>>> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G
>> ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)
>>
>>>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>>>>> the support?
>>>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
>>>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
>>>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
>>>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
>>> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
>>>
>>> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.
>> Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board
>> support.
>>
>>>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>>>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
>>>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
>>> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.
>> :-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because
>> we are not testing it at all.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michal
>
>

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-12 14:27         ` Georg Schardt
@ 2015-05-12 14:31           ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado @ 2015-05-12 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Hello Georg

Please make sure this patch is applied:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-May/214017.html

when you test it.


Thanks!

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Georg Schardt <schardt@team-ctech.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yes, we have still some fx12mm  in use and i can try to compile and run
> the newest u-boot in the next few days.
>
> regards
> Georg
>
> Am 12.05.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Ricardo Ribalda Delgado:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have followed doc/README.generic-board  and simply adding
>> CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick.
>>
>> So far it has build with no warnings for:
>>
>> ml507
>> ml507_flash
>> xilinx-ppc440-generic
>> v5fx30teval
>>
>> and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have
>> with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others):
>>
>>
>> Simply adding  CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly
>> As you can see from here:
>>
>>
>> U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15)
>>
>> CPU:   IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67)
>>        32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache
>> DRAM:  256 MiB
>> Flash: 32 MiB
>> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>>
>> U-Boot is up and runnining
>> ml507:/#
>>
>>
>> Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm
>>
>> It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg
>> can give it a try to confirm that this still works.
>>
>>
>> Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to
>> generic board?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>> Hello Michal
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reply
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Michal and Stefan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex
>>>>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life.
>>>>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for
>>>>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already
>>>>> removed.
>>>> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the
>>>> tools from the last two years does not support ppc.
>>> It is also about SDK where that support was removed.
>>>
>>>> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long
>>>> as v5, s6... was on sale.
>>>>
>>>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930
>>> One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the
>>> latest SW.
>>> Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive?
>>>
>>>
>>>>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform
>>>>> is obsolete from my point of view.
>>>> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco
>>>> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :)
>>>>
>>>> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available
>>>>
>>>> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G
>>> ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-)
>>>
>>>>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all
>>>>>> the support?
>>>>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx
>>>>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards
>>>>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it
>>>>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it.
>>>> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question.
>>>>
>>>> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great.
>>> Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board
>>> support.
>>>
>>>>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405
>>>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine
>>>>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old
>>>>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago.
>>>> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014.
>>> :-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because
>>> we are not testing it at all.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michal
>>
>>
>



-- 
Ricardo Ribalda

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* [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform
  2015-05-12 14:19       ` Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  2015-05-12 14:27         ` Georg Schardt
@ 2015-05-12 15:07         ` Tom Rini
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Tom Rini @ 2015-05-12 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 04:19:52PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have followed doc/README.generic-board  and simply adding
> CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick.
> 
> So far it has build with no warnings for:
> 
> ml507
> ml507_flash
> xilinx-ppc440-generic
> v5fx30teval
> 
> and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have
> with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others):
> 
> 
> Simply adding  CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly
> As you can see from here:
> 
> 
> U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15)
> 
> CPU:   IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67)
>        32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache
> DRAM:  256 MiB
> Flash: 32 MiB
> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
> 
> U-Boot is up and runnining
> ml507:/#
> 
> 
> Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm
> 
> It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg
> can give it a try to confirm that this still works.
> 
> 
> Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to
> generic board?

So I was about to send another email but then I dug a bit further and
see you're already listed as the maintainer for all of these platforms.
So the question comes back to you, is there anything else you'd want to
test before declaring things OK?  This particular change is indeed easy
but there's other stuff that'll need doing soon enough (device model
releated things), so please read up on that.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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