From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Georg Schardt Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 16:27:16 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc: xilinx: Remove ancient ppc405 and ppc440 platform In-Reply-To: References: <55505637.3090403@xilinx.com> <5550B25C.4050709@xilinx.com> Message-ID: <55520DC4.7080205@team-ctech.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 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 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 > >