From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert P. J. Day Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:16:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: [U-Boot] is it worth contributing a SATA SIL3512 driver to u-boot? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Fabio Estevam wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > well, the contract i'm working on will be using it for porting linux > > to a *lot* of older platforms so, technically, i'm that user. :-) > > What I meant was: if you submit the SATA SIL3512 driver to U-boot, > you should also add the U-boot support for at least one board that > makes use of this driver. short and possibly stupid question -- the fact that there is no support for this SATA device in u-boot suggests it's not terribly popular. i know little about it, can anyone comment on whether it's just obsolete or deprecated or superseded by a newer driver or something? i'm just starting to dig through the code now. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================