Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Simon, > > In message <1325054160-24894-1-git-send-email-...@chromium.org> you wrote: >> This series creates a generic board.c implementation which contains >> the essential functions of the various arch/xxx/lib/board.c files. > > I'll be loking into this deeper when I'm back at work (i. e. starting > with week 2 next year), but I'd like to make this comment as early as > possible: > > When making such changes, I _strongly_ recommend to use the Power > architecture implementation as reference. There are a number of > reasons for this, which I don't intend to explain in detail here and > now (lack of time). But PPC is the most complete, longest living and > most thoroughly designed architecture. Things that other > architectures aquire only over time (relocation, cache support, FDT > support, multiple busses [I2C, PCI, ...]) have "always" been supported > by PPC. > > > I fear that unifying any architectures and not including PPC rightr > from the beginning will result in additional efforts later, so please > have a look is this can be changed. > > Thanks.
Yes that has been in the back of my mind. I have had a look through this but have not started a serious effort on it. There are quite a few extra bits. My main concern is that I cannot test PPC, but I will see if I can put together a patch in any case. Regards, Simon > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de > Cigarette, n.: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of > tobacco in between. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot