Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-24 Thread Marek Vasut
Dne Po 20. září 2010 12:54:06 Wolfgang Denk napsal(a): Dear Marek Vasut, In message 201009201205.41037.marek.va...@gmail.com you wrote: most of the readers here probably noticed, there are various forks of U-Boot bootloader floating around the net. The development model there is quite

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Marek Vasut, In message 201009241737.27335.marek.va...@gmail.com you wrote: Using the DT for run-time configuration of U-Boot would be especially interesting. Assume: a single U-Boot image for all - say - OMAP3 boards... This looks very cool. I thought about this and I came to a

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-24 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Le 24/09/2010 19:35, Wolfgang Denk a écrit : Dear Marek Vasut, In message201009241737.27335.marek.va...@gmail.com you wrote: Using the DT for run-time configuration of U-Boot would be especially interesting. Assume: a single U-Boot image for all - say - OMAP3 boards... This looks very

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Albert ARIBAUD, In message 4c9ce432.7060...@free.fr you wrote: Stop me if I'm wrong, but basically this would imply that u-boot be built with support for the largest possible device combination, thus be rather big, right? ... Probably yes - similar to how Linux kernels are configured

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-24 Thread Albert ARIBAUD
Le 24/09/2010 20:59, Wolfgang Denk a écrit : Of course. We will always allow customized, board specific configurations that can be kept as small as possible if they don't need this feature. Good. But if you look at current trends with SoC and board manufacturers, it would be really great

[U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-20 Thread Marek Vasut
Hi, most of the readers here probably noticed, there are various forks of U-Boot bootloader floating around the net. The development model there is quite closed and certainly not community driven, on the other hand, they have neat driver model. As for U-Boot, there currently is no driver

Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] Driver model

2010-09-20 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Marek Vasut, In message 201009201205.41037.marek.va...@gmail.com you wrote: most of the readers here probably noticed, there are various forks of U-Boot bootloader floating around the net. The development model there is quite closed and certainly not community driven, on the other