Hello Georg Please make sure this patch is applied:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-May/214017.html when you test it. Thanks! On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Georg Schardt <scha...@team-ctech.de> wrote: > Hello, > > yes, we have still some fx12mm in use and i can try to compile and run > the newest u-boot in the next few days. > > regards > Georg > > Am 12.05.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Ricardo Ribalda Delgado: >> Hello >> >> I have followed doc/README.generic-board and simply adding >> CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD does the trick. >> >> So far it has build with no warnings for: >> >> ml507 >> ml507_flash >> xilinx-ppc440-generic >> v5fx30teval >> >> and I have run it on the ml507 with no issues (is the only hw I have >> with me this week, but it is VERY similar to the others): >> >> >> Simply adding CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD to the .h file works perfectly >> As you can see from here: >> >> >> U-Boot 2015.07-rc1-00091-g698a12bef9e7-dirty (May 12 2015 - 10:14:15) >> >> CPU: IBM PowerPC 440x5 VIRTEX5 at 400 MHz (PLB=100 OPB=8 EBC=67) >> 32 KiB I-Cache 32 KiB D-Cache >> DRAM: 256 MiB >> Flash: 32 MiB >> *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment >> >> U-Boot is up and runnining >> ml507:/# >> >> >> Regarding xilinx-ppc404 and fx12mm >> >> It also builds ok, but I have no access to an fx12mm. Perhaps Georg >> can give it a try to confirm that this still works. >> >> >> Is there any other test that needs to be done after "porting" them to >> generic board? >> >> >> Thanks >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 05/11/2015 09:34 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: >>>> Hello Michal >>>> >>>> Thanks for your reply >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> On 05/09/2015 06:24 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: >>>>>> Hello Michal and Stefan >>>>>> >>>>>> Could you provide some context about why are we removing this? Virtex >>>>>> 5 (and V4) are not yet in their end of life. >>>>> I was checking this internally and ppc is not supported by tools for >>>>> several releases (roughly ~2 years). All support from tools was already >>>>> removed. >>>> Virtex5 is only supported by ise/edk, not vivado. This is why the >>>> tools from the last two years does not support ppc. >>> It is also about SDK where that support was removed. >>> >>>> I think that the position from xilinx was to support ise for as long >>>> as v5, s6... was on sale. >>>> >>>> http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Implementation/VIrtex-5-and-Vivado-HSL/td-p/250930 >>> One thing was support design tools and the next was to support the >>> latest SW. >>> Anyway this is Virtex5 - ppc440. Any intention to keep ppc405 alive? >>> >>> >>>>> There is no testing on it done for a long time that's why this platform >>>>> is obsolete from my point of view. >>>> We still use it actively on the fpga family of our productsm and cisco >>>> uses quite a lot of virtex5 :) >>>> >>>> Also avnet virtex5 boards are still available >>>> >>>> http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController?action=products&catalogId=500201&storeId=500201&N=0&langId=-1&slnk=b&term=AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G&hrf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.em.avnet.com%2Fen-us%2Fdesign%2Fdrc%2FPages%2FXilinx-Virtex-5-LX-Evaluation-Kit.aspx&intcmp=EMA-BUY-AES-XLX-V5LX-EVL110-G >>> ok. I really have no problem to let you support these boards. :-) >>> >>>>>> The plan is to re-factor the code for this platform or just drop all >>>>>> the support? >>>>> Platform needs to be moved to generic board support and none from xilinx >>>>> will do it. If you want to invest your time and support these boards >>>>> feel free to do it but from my perspective we should just remove it >>>>> because it is just old and make no sense to waste our time on it. >>>> Give me a couple of days and I will be able to answer to that question. >>>> >>>> If the patch can wait a bit before it is merged it will be great. >>> Definitely it can wait but it has to be moved and test for generic board >>> support. >>> >>>>>> There are also yocto layers that support ml507 and ml405 >>>>>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/tree/conf/machine >>>>> I am not yocto guy but from cgit it looks like that it is pretty old >>>>> too. ppc support 4 years ago, ml507 2 years ago. >>>> Last change for virtex5 is from 2014. >>> :-) really just make no sense for me to keep these things alive because >>> we are not testing it at all. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Michal >> >> > -- Ricardo Ribalda _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot