Dear Stefan,

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > AS I understand, this is just a 
> > temporary patch including a workaround for aproblem that is not yet
> > understood.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > We are not under preassure yet in terms of release schedule.
> 
> AMCC wants to ship the new 600MHz boards. This version at least works 
> compared 
> to the current version which turns those boards into bricks, since it doesn't 
> bootup into the U-Boot prompt. So it definitely is an improvement.

We agree on this. But  I  would  rather  wait  for  a  real  fix  for
mainline.  In  the  meantime,  you  could  keep  this workaround in a
separate branch of your ppc4xx repository.

> I was hesitating here too, but I think its good enough to include this patch 
> now. It definitely is a temporary fix and I hope that AMCC provides 
> a "better", final patch that fixes this problem soon. Problem is that nobody 
> knows how long this could take.

I hope AMCC can still make it for the next release -  we  still  have
nearly 3 weeks plus some time for final testing.

> But in the end it's your call. If you reject this patch as is, then I'll 
> revert it in my repository.

Please revert it in the master branch. Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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