Re: [U-Boot] Re-introducing support for OLD hardware

2018-05-04 Thread Jason Mitchell
Hi everyone. In regards to re-introduction and ongoing maintenance of support for old SoC, we have determined that this would be a futile effort. More so when you consider that the team here wanted to run Jquery and all of the newer frameworks on this old SoC. We have therefore chosen to support

Re: [U-Boot] Re-introducing support for OLD hardware

2018-04-16 Thread Lukasz Majewski
On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:04:20 +0200 Jason Mitchell wrote: > Good day all > > I am currently faced with a task of having to run new software on > ageing hardware. We have currently about 1000 units in the field of a > machine that runs Windows CE using the Samsung S3C6410. > > Because these are c

Re: [U-Boot] Re-introducing support for OLD hardware

2018-04-15 Thread Jason Mitchell
Hi there Thanks for the advice. The DTP append work-around sounds like a horrible hack that might come to bite me later, so I am going to rather go with re-introducing SMDK6410 back into the U-boot and maintain it. The benefits are then of course that we will be retrofitting something modern in th

Re: [U-Boot] Re-introducing support for OLD hardware

2018-04-12 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:04:20AM +0200, Jason Mitchell wrote: > Good day all > > I am currently faced with a task of having to run new software on ageing > hardware. We have currently about 1000 units in the field of a machine that > runs Windows CE using the Samsung S3C6410. > > Because these

[U-Boot] Re-introducing support for OLD hardware

2018-04-12 Thread Jason Mitchell
Good day all I am currently faced with a task of having to run new software on ageing hardware. We have currently about 1000 units in the field of a machine that runs Windows CE using the Samsung S3C6410. Because these are considerable assets its not a simple case of replacing them with new, more