From: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/3] powerpc, 8xx: remove support for 8xx
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:37:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <593F9644.5080305@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c47ea679-cd3f-d993-7eb6-247762b87081@c-s.fr>
Hello Christophe,
Am 13.06.2017 um 07:40 schrieb Christophe LEROY:
>
>
> Le 13/06/2017 à 07:26, Christophe LEROY a écrit :
>> There was for long time no activity in the 8xx area.
>> We need to go further and convert to Kconfig, but it
>> turned out, nobody is interested anymore in 8xx,
>> so remove it (with a heavy heart, knowing that I remove
>> here the root of U-Boot).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
>>
>
> Please don't do that.
Tom already applied the patch to mainline ...
> As you can see in Linux kernel activity, there have been a lot activity related to the 8xx,
> including but not limited to:
> 1/ HW Crypto for the 885 (Talitos SEC1)
> 2/ TX NAPI in the 8xx Ethernet driver
> 3/ Scatter/Gather support in the 8xx Ethernet driver
> 4/ Hugepages
> 5/ Perf events
> 6/ hw breakpoints
> 7/ Linear memory mapping via Large TLBs
Thats linux ... not u-boot!
> The followings links give an overview of the activity:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/drivers/crypto/talitos.c
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/log/arch/powerpc/mm/8xx_mmu.c
>
> We have thousands of boards with mpc885 running and requiring support for at least the next 10 years.
Ok, nice to hear!
> How can the 8xx survive without U-boot support ?
Tom asked (I think a lot of times) regarding converting mpc8xx to
Kconfig / DM and nobody did the necessary steps. We also asked
our customers if they can do the necessary changes, none was interested.
So, if you need mpc8xx support in U-Boot, simply add it again with
Kconfig and DM support included!
bye,
Heiko
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2017-06-13 5:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/3] powerpc, 8xx: remove support for 8xx Christophe LEROY
2017-06-13 7:37 ` Heiko Schocher [this message]
2017-06-13 12:15 ` Tom Rini
2017-06-14 7:40 ` Christophe LEROY
2017-06-14 13:23 ` Heiko Schocher
2017-06-14 13:27 ` Tom Rini
2017-06-07 15:33 [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 0/3] remove 8xx/82xx and mpc5xx Heiko Schocher
2017-06-07 15:33 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v1 1/3] powerpc, 8xx: remove support for 8xx Heiko Schocher
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