From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Simek Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:45:00 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform In-Reply-To: References: <55505637.3090403@xilinx.com> Message-ID: <5550B25C.4050709@xilinx.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 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 is obsolete from my point of view.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