On Sun, 18 May 2014 12:51:04 +0200
Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/17/2014 10:38 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 09:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> On 05/17/2014 09:43 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 16 May 2014 21:40:07 +0100
> >>> Ian Campbell <i...@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 23:11 +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> >>>>>> I think this change is an improvement, but if we do this, we also
> >>>>>> need to upstream it. Ian what is your take on this? IOW are you
> >>>>>> ok with my applying this to the u-boot-sunxi git repo ?
> >>>>
> >>>> While things aren't yet upstream I'm in two minds.
> >>>>
> >>>> Once it does go upstream I think it would pay to be quite strict about
> >>>> accepting stuff into u-boot-sunxi.git. There's not much point going to
> >>>> all the effort upstreaming things if it is just allowed to diverge
> >>>> again, and I don't really want to be forever playing catch up.
> >>>
> >>> As I see it, the 'sunxi' branch at u-boot-sunxi.git is good for
> >>> nothing. It does not even try to be in a workable state for the
> >>> end users (the broken GMAC is telling a lot).
> >>
> >> That is not true, u-boot-sunxi.git should be the default branch
> >> for end users to use. I've not bothered fixing GMAC since I did not
> >> think anyone was actually using network boot.
Network boot is one of the "advertised" features. If the users try
to follow the well written linux-sunxi wiki tutorials, such as
http://linux-sunxi.org/How_to_boot_the_A10_or_A20_over_the_network
and u-boot just fails with a lot of noise, then this is definitely
not nice.
> >> But you're right we should
> >> fix it. Ian, if I'm not mistaken to fix GMAC I should merge the
> >> patches from your ijc/designware branch correct?
> >
> > There was a v3.1 of one of the patches and I can't remember if I pushed
> > it anywhere -- I'd recommend picking them off the list (or at least
> > confirming that ijc/designware has a v3.1 comment in one of the
> > patches).
>
> Your branch indeed had the old v3 I've picked the v3.1 out of patchwork,
> and pushed all 5. Now our designware.[c|h] are in sync with what we'll be
> going upstream soon.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
Thanks! Now this looks more like the stable branch should be maintained.
--
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka
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